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  • Laraway School
  • Joliet, IL
  • Nearly all students from low‑income households

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The use of the smartboard is daily for all of my math, science, language arts, and writing lessons. Unfortunately, I am limited to what can be displayed on my smartboard as a lot of my activities and documents are not on the computer. My students learn best by seeing an example and me walking through the example with them. Students will be able to simply focus on the academic material at hand, and not whether their materials are going to work or not. Plus in this technology literate world, any interaction with updated technology will increase their literacy as well as their desire to learn and use the new technology! They will be able to interact and come up and show their answers and reasonings to the whole class as well!

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The use of the smartboard is daily for all of my math, science, language arts, and writing lessons. Unfortunately, I am limited to what can be displayed on my smartboard as a lot of my activities and documents are not on the computer. My students learn best by seeing an example and me walking through the example with them. Students will be able to simply focus on the academic material at hand, and not whether their materials are going to work or not. Plus in this technology literate world, any interaction with updated technology will increase their literacy as well as their desire to learn and use the new technology! They will be able to interact and come up and show their answers and reasonings to the whole class as well!

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