Classroom Technology - Chromebooks

School:: Seacrest Country Day School - Middle School
Subject:: Language Arts
Teacher:: Dylan Hacker
Students Impacted:: 40
Grade:: 8
Date:: September 6, 2023

Investor

Thank you to the following investor for funding this grant.

A Champion for Learning - $2,000.00

Impact to My Classroom

# of Students Impacted: 37

Thanks to a generous grant from Champions for Learning, my 8th-grade English classroom now has a set of Chromebooks, providing an invaluable resource for enhancing our learning environment. With these Chromebooks, my students can conduct research for their projects, explore online resources, and dive into meaningful extensions of our classroom lessons, allowing them to engage more deeply with the material. The accessibility of this technology has also significantly reduced the time we used to spend transitioning to the computer lab, enabling us to focus more on learning and collaboration. Moreover, the responsibility of caring for their Chromebooks has taught my students the importance of maintaining technology and respecting shared resources. I am incredibly grateful to the donors who funded this grant and to Champions for Learning for making such a transformative impact on our classroom. Your support is truly appreciated!

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Original Grant Overview

Goal

To enhance the educational experience and level of engagement for 8th grade language arts students by providing in-class assistive technology.

What will be done with my students

Seacrest Country Day School prides itself on being a low-tech school. We have technology and use it in appropriate ways, but we are careful to ensure it does not disrupt the learning environment. This grant will be used to purchase a class set of Chromebook laptops to be housed in my classroom.

Benefits to my students

Seacrest has MacBook laptops available to reserve. Having a set of Chromebooks that stay inside my classroom will allow for less disruption during the school day (students leaving to get laptops from the technology room). It will also allow the Macbooks to be used by other classes instead of having to share with Language Arts. Macbooks are also highly capable laptops. I simply need computers for research and writing.

For my students, we will experience increased instructional time (less movement to and from picking up laptops). Our school utilizes the Google Education Suite, which will function seamlessly with a google driven Chromebook. With these Chromebooks, students will be conducting research for formal research papers and presentations and writing various types of essays (persuasive, expository, analytical, etc.). Students will also gain access to a host of assistive technology: voice-to-text, line readers, interactive lessons, databases, dyslexic friendly fonts, etc. The options are limitless.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Budget Narrative

This pricing is based on Costco's current price for this chromebook. Actual device may vary based on availability and price.

Items

#	Item	Cost
1	Acer Spin 13.3" Chromebook Laptop	$200.00
2	Acer Spin 13.3" Chromebook Laptop	$200.00
3	Acer Spin 13.3" Chromebook Laptop	$200.00
4	Acer Spin 13.3" Chromebook Laptop	$200.00
5	Acer Spin 13.3" Chromebook Laptop	$200.00
6	Acer Spin 13.3" Chromebook Laptop	$200.00
7	Acer Spin 13.3" Chromebook Laptop	$200.00
8	Acer Spin 13.3" Chromebook Laptop	$200.00
9	Acer Spin 13.3" Chromebook Laptop	$200.00
10	Acer Spin 13.3" Chromebook Laptop	$200.00
	Total:	$2,000.00

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