Somerset County students will be moving into the 21st century with plans to provide them with electronic tablets as the school district also explores distance learning for students who are sick or snowed in.
It will be provided by a $400-thousand Digital Learning Innovation Fund grant that is aimed to assist students through technology.
Jill Holland, the instructional technology coordinator for the school district, told the Salisbury Daily Times that Somerset County has never used tablets before.
So, she says, they will be trying them on a pilot basis before providing them to all three grades.
For long distance learning there will also be a handful of middle or high school students chosen from Smith Island who must travel by boat.
Smith Island students missed more than a week of school last year because of the cold weather that froze the Tangier Sound.
