My students need two-in-one laptops to help them prepare for proper usage of a computer and to link it directly to the ever-changing English Language Arts.
When you are introduced to my district, you see the side that everyone wants you to see: Smart Boards built into the white boards, technology advanced classrooms, ELMO desktop writers, projectors, and all the little gizmos and gadgets you can think of. When you enter my district, which employs over 9,000 men and women, and educates over 170 square miles worth of children, you see the side they want you to see.
When you enter my school, you see a different side.
My district is, for the most part, well off. My school lacks the basic needs for a fully efficient classroom. Our computer lab is in the process of being shut down, leaving us with one working laptop cart that has glitches and two, always booked iPad carts. In a school with over three hundred students, that is simply not enough.
Many of my students come from homes that do not have electricity, running water, or a "normal" four family home. Many of my students come to school to learn, but I come to help them receive the inspiration, education, and love that they deserve.
My Project
Students will be using an interactive, school based website, Schoology, to create, edit, and publish assignments and projects. As an ELA teacher, I will use Microsoft apps to write and edit papers. We write an array of papers including fictional, how to, personal narratives, and more; the laptops will allow the students the ability to complete the research necessary for the specific paper.
In this day and age, students need more than pen and paper to receive the most out of their learning experience.
With a plethora of learners in my class, we need options to help them learn.
I am requesting a partial class set of laptop/tablet hybrids. With the ability to function as a laptop or tablet, students will have ample opportunities to use these in the classroom.
In the writing aspect of the classroom, students can use the laptops for revising and editing on the touch screen (ELL, Dyslexic, and Dysgraphic students will appreciate this), research topics for papers or assignments, integrate school based websites for information and interactive games (Kahoot, Schoology, Quizlet), and write and publish papers.
In the reading aspect of the classroom, students can use the laptops for gaining background knowledge on the novel read in class (currently reading "The Watsons Go To Birmingham), create interactive presentations of novels and short stories read, use cross curriculum information to understand and experience the novel on a real world level.
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