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By having Chromebooks in the classroom, students will have increased opportunities to collaborate with each other on projects and with teachers on assignments. My goal for these Chromebooks is to have students word process short writing pieces so that they can gain proficiency in typing. Once the pieces are typed up on a platform such as Google Docs, students can peer-edit each others' writing more easily. As a teacher, I can also give feedback more frequently, since I will be able to access my students' writing pieces online. Rather than waiting until family conferences or curriculum night, families can also view and be informed of their child's school work more often. Having Chromebooks in the classroom would allow me to put out these laptops during whole-group discussions for students who may want to "write out" their contributions instead of voicing them orally. The headphones would help keep out distractions. I teach in an integrated co-teaching classroom, which means that 40% of my students have some form of identified learning disability, specifically speech and language impairments. These Chromebooks can greatly increase my students access to differentiated learning experiences. Lastly, having Chromebooks would just open up doors for innovation in terms of curriculum projects. In my classroom, students engage in many project-based learning experiences in various academic disciplines, especially social studies. I would love to introduce more technology-oriented presentation methods to my students (ie. PowerPoint, Google Slides, Prezi, Adobe Spark, etc.). I want my students to experience creating a PowerPoint, a song, a video, etc. on a computer. As such, I have opted for a more advanced Chromebook that would allow for a better display of these types of presentations. Ideally, I would want a class set of Chromebooks, but I am beginning with seven so that each table group in my classroom can work collaboratively on these presentations.