Interactive Projector for Special Needs Students' Success
Help me give my students an interactive projector so that they can engage more effectively with academic content and learn more.
$2,054 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.
The high school students I teach are amazing, hard-working people who commute nearly an hour every day to get here. Most of my students qualify for free lunches and are students of color. They have a range of strengths and learning needs. All of my students are on special education plans. They are enrolled in our Students with Disabilities program. Despite having intellectual and/or physical challenges, my students show amazing resilience learning academic content. They really want to learn how to express themselves in writing and speaking and they enjoy learning from reading. Most of these students will earn a special diploma based on acquiring basic academic and life skills. Some of them will be in school until they are 21. All of my students want to succeed!
My special education students really love technology.
They get very excited whenever they can work on iPads or use the computer. Having access to visual images as they learn and being able to use a touchscreen are especially helpful to my students. That is why having a Smartboard in the classroom is so important. This technology can really boost engagement and students' learning.
My Project
I want to have an interactive projector in my classroom as a tool to support whole class, small group, and individual learning. Help our whiteboard come to life with images, educational games, videos and large surfaces we can annotate and then save for later use. With this projector, the whiteboard becomes an enormous monitor and the pen, or even students' fingers, become the mouse or keyboard. This is the perfect technology to provide access to my students who have a range of physical and intellectual learning challenges.
I can use BrightLink to enhance our school’s standard curriculum.
For example, the BrightLink projector provides an essential visual aid to make sure the students with disabilities are highlighting the right information. We know that movement - actually physically moving objects and words - helps our students learn. And the interactive features of this projector allows students to go up to the board and drag and drop images and words to create sentences or complete graphic organizers.
My students love using technology. Now that means students working individually on small laptops. With this projector, our whiteboard functions as a large, collaborative digital space which all students can access at the same time.
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