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  • Hillsdale High School
  • San Mateo, CA
  • More than a third 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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Right now my classroom has an old, dinosaur projector. It is dim, low resolution, and hooks up to a clunky analog cord. If we want to do the type of engaging, exciting group lessons and projects most effectively, we need a new high resolution projector with wireless projection. A high resolution, wireless projector would make my classroom run more effectively, more dramatically, and more efficiently because it will allow students to project their presentations wirelessly (Geneva Convention simulation, 10th grade TED Talk) and allow instant, whole-class collaboration, enhance classroom discussion, and make presentations, images and videos (including student-created videos) more vivid and exciting. Our projects substantially rely on real-time collaboration and discussion. As an example, the theme of my 10th grade class is moral decision-making, and the moral decisions that historical figures and societies have had to make, particularly in war. We explore the purges in Stalinist Russia, the firebombing of Japan and the use of atom bombs in WWII, 20th century genocides, and more modern moral decisions like the use of torture following 9/11, the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and the Syrian regime’s use of chemical weapons. As a culminating project for that unit, we do a simulation of the 1949 Geneva Convention where students rewrite or create new laws on the conduct of war and on international human rights. As students draft their new laws, we then rewrite as a class taking suggestions on word choice and language from different committees. To do that, groups need to project the text of their laws on the screen and rewrite or amend those laws. If we could project wirelessly from chromebooks, we could, for example, amend and rewrite as a class in real time, without the interruption of signing in and out, unhooking and continuously re-projecting.

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Right now my classroom has an old, dinosaur projector. It is dim, low resolution, and hooks up to a clunky analog cord. If we want to do the type of engaging, exciting group lessons and projects most effectively, we need a new high resolution projector with wireless projection. A high resolution, wireless projector would make my classroom run more effectively, more dramatically, and more efficiently because it will allow students to project their presentations wirelessly (Geneva Convention simulation, 10th grade TED Talk) and allow instant, whole-class collaboration, enhance classroom discussion, and make presentations, images and videos (including student-created videos) more vivid and exciting. Our projects substantially rely on real-time collaboration and discussion. As an example, the theme of my 10th grade class is moral decision-making, and the moral decisions that historical figures and societies have had to make, particularly in war. We explore the purges in Stalinist Russia, the firebombing of Japan and the use of atom bombs in WWII, 20th century genocides, and more modern moral decisions like the use of torture following 9/11, the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and the Syrian regime’s use of chemical weapons. As a culminating project for that unit, we do a simulation of the 1949 Geneva Convention where students rewrite or create new laws on the conduct of war and on international human rights. As students draft their new laws, we then rewrite as a class taking suggestions on word choice and language from different committees. To do that, groups need to project the text of their laws on the screen and rewrite or amend those laws. If we could project wirelessly from chromebooks, we could, for example, amend and rewrite as a class in real time, without the interruption of signing in and out, unhooking and continuously re-projecting.

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