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Ms. Bates from Charlotte NC is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

A Winning Combination: Literacy and Technology

My students need a MacBook Air so that they can creatively use technology to enhance their love for reading!

  • $1,294 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

Reading is fundamental to everything! Please help me help my reluctant readers learn to use technology effectively to FOSTER A LOVE for READING!

I teach in a very diverse school that is highly impoverished in NC.

The students that I teach aren't accustomed to having the "finer" things in life. For this and many more reasons, I seek to provide them with hands-on experiences that they can be proud of. Regardless of their current reality, they are well versed in the use of technology. I want to use this fact to my advantage by providing a blended learning atmosphere where students can take their love of literacy to a higher level and create artifacts that they can be proud of as well as show that they clearly understand the content/skill being taught.

My Project

The students will use the MacBook Air to creatively show that they understand the content or to master a skill. I want them to understand that they don't always have to test, test, test to show their learning and understanding. Since my students are so tuned into technology, students will create and edit book trailers read and listen to eBooks, write their own stories and scripts, create mind maps, dig deeper in current and past events, and create timelines of stories.

My students are at the point in their lives where they don't know whether they like or hate reading.

I want my classroom to be one of the reasons that they decide they still LOVE reading! I want to show them how to effectively use technology to enhance their love of literacy.

Ms. Bates
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Apple MacBook Air 13.3-Inch Laptop MD760LL/B, 1.4 GHz Intel i5 Dual Core Processor • Amazon Business $978.36 1 $978.36

Materials cost

$978.36

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$76.31

3rd party payment processing fee

$14.68

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,099.35

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$194.00

Total project goal

$1,293.35

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$1,293.35

8 Donors

-$1,138.94

Donations toward project cost

-$971.85

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$167.09

match offer

-$150.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$127.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$22.50

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.41

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$0.00

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