My Students

Discovering the 21st Century Technology, Collaborative, and Communications that employers want from our students. As a teacher working with limited or no funding, the contributions have become a necessity to integrate technology into our curriculum.

My students are from all over the world and attend an urban ring school.

Our free or reduced lunch ratio is approximately 50%. Socioeconomics play a major role our students ability to learn how to research, analyze, collaborate, and communicate with mastering technological skills. Many of my students have parents in home countries and live here with relatives. This means time on a computer at home can be limited, if they have one at all. My students arrive at my classroom as early as 6:30 am just to get an opportunity to use computers and printers in my classroom. The average number of students each morning is approximately 50 students who rotated in and out of the classroom during the hour before classes begin.

My Project

Our computers are very old and need memory (Crucial DDR2 1 GB DIMM 240 pin). Students will be able to use the new tools to research from multiple resources, analyze, and interpret data in a collaborative environment which stimulates communication and learning. 21st Century Technology skills foster these skills that employers are requesting in our area. The PCs are 7-8 years old, some older, but with batteries and memory in short supply, it is impeding my ability to use Web 2.0 applications that employers want students to know.

Donations to my project will greatly improve our classroom due to our 10 years old computers.

Many are broken and are in need of RAM (memory) desperately. The system need repair or crash during our lessons. This takes away from teaching and learning time that we cannot recover and make sure every student has the same opportunity to learn. I have taken upon myself to piece part together one computer from many that were beyond repair but have run out of those computers to use.