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
My students need 2 Apple iPads so that they can explore and learn via technology. There is no career that is more honorable and rewarding than a teacher. I am proud to know that I am preparing, teaching and inspiring the future. Our world today is focused on technology and it is important that these little minds are exposed to it everyday.
My students are a diverse group of children who come from all cultural, ethnic and economic backgrounds.
They are eager to learn and grow. This is their first time attending school and it is very rewarding for me to watch them develop. Despite their varying backgrounds, however, they all share a love of technology. We have a Promethean Board that I use every day and it is fascinating to see how engaged they are in these lessons. The Promethean Board is great during our whole group instruction, but I am searching for ways to expose their one on one time with technology. They spend most of the day learning through play at the different centers in our class, but our technology center is lacking materials. Adding iPads to our Technology Center would enable children to take turns attending that center and work for a prolonged period of time using iPads.
My Project
I am requesting 2 Apple iPads so that they can explore and learn via technology. In our classroom, we have different learning centers, one of which is a Technology Center. I currently have 3 functioning computers in this center and would like to strengthen the center by adding two iPads. iPads are an ideal tool for introducing students to technology while developing their academic skills. If we were to have iPads in our Technology Center, the students would have access to numerous free websites. Additionally, iTunes offers free educational apps that could be installed on the iPads. These free websites and apps strengthen children's reading, math and science skills as they play games. The children love playing on these websites and apps and don't even realize they are learning! Also, the iPads would allow each child a turn as our class photographer. Finally, iPads would allow us to take pictures and videos of our classroom activities and post them to our class website for families to view.
It is my responsibility to prepare my students for the future and our future is focused on technology.
iPads are an ideal way of introducing students to technology and developing their computer literacy and academic skills. Including iPads in our Technology Center would enable me to maximize each child's one on one time with a tool that will assist in developing each child's academic and technological skills.
More than half of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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