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Ms. Thrasher from Baltimore MD is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Authentic Inquiry & Art Making With Technology

My students need iPad minis to document their artwork and integrate technology authentically into the art making process.

  • $325 goal

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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

My students are overage middle schoolers that travel across town to an inner-city behavioral program to receive extra support from small class sizes, mentoring, and coaching. Many have difficulties finding positive coping skills and regulating their social-emotional selves in and out of the classroom. Many have diagnosed learning differences in the form of IEPs. My students demographic is 100% African American, and 100% of them receive free breakfast and lunch.

My students come from impoverished communities and many have experienced trauma that has impacted their educational progress.

Our faculty recognizes how ACEs, or Adverse Childhood Experiences, affect student development. As a result, our students are treated with extra compassion and care.

My Project

Process is just as important as product within the art classroom. I am always seeking ways to make my curriculum as similar to the lives of real artists and designers in order to increase success and engagement with relevant art making prompts. However, without appropriate technology in the classroom, my students miss a fundamental element of design thinking: documenting process and collaboration.

My students need an iPad in order to authentically engage with art making by documenting their process technologically.

Working in an alternative school, my students do not carry their cell phones around during the school day. An iPad will support my students' learning by providing opportunities to take photographs and use them in their own artwork. They will be able to create photographic records of their own unique processes, as well as integrate video and other educational apps into their learning experience. My students will use the iPad to collaborate on the best ways to exhibit and display artwork by documenting finished works as well.

Ms. Thrasher
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Apple iPad Air A1474 16GB, Wi-Fi - Black (Certified Refurbished) • Amazon Business $216.87 1 $216.87
JETech iPad Air Case Slim-Fit Smart Case Cover for Apple iPad Air iPad 5 with Auto Sleep/Wake Feature (Black) • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99

Materials cost

$228.86

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $13.73

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.43

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$276.02

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$48.71

Total project goal

$324.73

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $324.73

3 Donors

-$324.73

Donations toward project cost

-$276.02

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$48.71

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 $0.00

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