Help me give my students access to adaptive applications via Google Chromebooks. They will be able to use virtual manipulatives, use speech to text and voice typing so their disabilities do not limit their creativity.
$899 goal
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My students are so amazing this year. They are a mix of ability groups in a junior high setting but not on junior high academic levels. They love learning when it's within their grasp. Over 50% of the students are living in poverty as the mines and mining industry the community was built on suffers economic decline. Some of the students are Native American, from the Apache tribe, and most from mixed racial families.
These students have learning disabilities, such as dyslexia and dyscalculia, and require alternative teaching techniques like manipulatives to make concepts concrete and technology to let them access written language.
I love that their goals include writing, web design, serving in the Military and Armed Forces, as well as becoming a YouTube streamer. I want to help them reach their long term goals while opening the core curriculum to them.
My Project
I have students below grade level in academic performance and it frustrates them. With the technology available today, it's silly that access to tablets, computers, etc., is what's keeping the focus on disabilities and hindering the ideas from being developed and expressed of this group. I want to unlock that potential by getting them the technology.
Students will use the Chromebooks in multiple classes to take notes, access the assignments, and adapt the work required to their abilities, not be restrained by their disability.
They will use voice typing to take notes and then write papers that are currently to difficult to write, but that they can speak and discuss. This will also open up so many more learning opportunities for them.
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