Learning Center Needs Technology: Help Kids Learn and Research

Funded Aug 17, 2015

Thank you so much for giving my students the opportunity to hold, utilize and learn from an iPad. It seems strange that one iPad could motivate a class of students to want to learn. However, when you teach in a Science and Engineering school but you don't have the latest technology to teach from or to share with your students, its very hard to get students to buy into the idea that technology is important to their future. Your donation allowed us to have an iPad in our classroom and gave students the opportunity to see a world of information.

This technology helps students to work in small groups as they investigate how to burn calories by designing various exercises for several classroom experiments. Having an iPad allows me to differentiate for students with learning disabilities because I can now assign them the privilege of completing their work on the iPad as a reward for being persistent and "never giving up" on their projects.

What is most exciting to my students is that the iPad allows them the same internet access as a landline computer. Also the iPad is a part of their future. Many students shared with me that prior to receiving our iPad in class they had never held an iPad or seen one up close. Your donations allowed me the opportunity to bring a world of technology to our students and to show them that people care about their success in STEM and other classes that can incorporate the use of an iPad”

With gratitude,

Mr. Novins