Dive Summary:

• The Boston Globe announced this week that it would use its reader vacation funds to donate iPads and projectors to K-12 schools. 
• Previously, when a subscriber went on vacation, the proceeds from their subscription would be used to fund newspaper and digital subscriptions for classrooms. 
• As a result of the rapidly changing times we live in, the Boston Globe will use $65,000 in reader vacation funds to buy 75 iPads for Boston Public Schools and Stoneham High School.

From the article:

"... The Globe announced this week that is using $65,000 of reader vacation funds to buy 75 iPads for Boston Public Schools and Stoneham High School. The idea, according to Globe executive Saurer, is that 'digital kids turn into digital adults' and that the iPad program will expose them to the paper’s content and knowledge from around the web.

'In the past, teachers would ask elementary school kids to cut out pictures from the paper — it was very tactile,' said Saurer by phone. He added that the advent of digital reading and the impractical economics of supplying paper and ink led the Globe to try the iPad program. ..."