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  • STEM-tastic Literacy Across the Curriculum

    Funded Jan 1, 2017

    I sincerely appreciate the funds you donated to make my team's project a reality! Thank you so much for providing the funds necessary to procure a full classroom set of chromebooks for my school's 6th grade scholars! I am very grateful, and it was nice to end the calendar year on this high note!”

    With gratitude,

    Mr. Hock

    This classroom project was brought to life by Google.org and 5 other donors.

  • STEM-tastic Literacy Across the Curriculum

    Funded Dec 17, 2016

    Words alone aren’t enough to express my sincere thanks for your generous donation in securing Chromebooks for my 6th grade scholars! You affirm my belief that our individual sacrifices, and continued support can help change our world in so many ways. Our children of today will become the leaders we need for a new day, and the many years ahead. My heartfelt thanks to you, your families, and/or friends that helped make my team’s cross-curricular project a reality!”

    With gratitude,

    Mr. Hock

Chromebooks significantly improve teaching and learning content, assessment, and student collaboration. They also provide a catalyst to better motivate scholars to see the “real-world work” application of classroom learning, and how technology makes work collaborative, creative, and fun! Lessons would be more effective through the use of chromebooks (e.g., virtual geometry manipulatives). Effective classroom assessments using technology target individual scholar’s understandings and misconceptions. Communal student discourse allows for both real-world connections, and relationships to classroom learning! As a showcase project, scholars design a city park involving the real-world application of STEM and literacy concepts. Google Earth could be used to help scholars better understand abstract concepts like what certain objects may look like from a “helicopter view.” Working through the scientific process, scholars learn that success is not always immediate, but just like some of the world's most difficult problems, mistakes and perseverance are required. In addition, scholar collaboration would be vastly improved as students apply digital literacy skills researching and writing like real-world architects. Year-long assessment would come alive with games and quick, effective “check-ups” to target individual scholar’s learning. Scholars who have mastered math concepts can use Chromebooks as a re-teaching tool to help struggling peers, enriching and improving student engagement. In addition, more frequent ongoing assessment using technology would both help scholars improve test-taking strategies, and apply these strategies when taking high-stakes standardized tests like PARCC. Chromebooks foster an environment of more risk-taking by sharing daily classwork anonymously with the whole class. Technology automates manual processes allowing more time for higher order critical thinking such as comparing and contrasting problem solving approaches. Students better work collaboratively creating word problems using digital literacy tools including audio and videos. Chromebooks provide an immense amount of opportunities for students to collaborate, and “show-off” their learning using many different modalities.

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Chromebooks significantly improve teaching and learning content, assessment, and student collaboration. They also provide a catalyst to better motivate scholars to see the “real-world work” application of classroom learning, and how technology makes work collaborative, creative, and fun! Lessons would be more effective through the use of chromebooks (e.g., virtual geometry manipulatives). Effective classroom assessments using technology target individual scholar’s understandings and misconceptions. Communal student discourse allows for both real-world connections, and relationships to classroom learning! As a showcase project, scholars design a city park involving the real-world application of STEM and literacy concepts. Google Earth could be used to help scholars better understand abstract concepts like what certain objects may look like from a “helicopter view.” Working through the scientific process, scholars learn that success is not always immediate, but just like some of the world's most difficult problems, mistakes and perseverance are required. In addition, scholar collaboration would be vastly improved as students apply digital literacy skills researching and writing like real-world architects. Year-long assessment would come alive with games and quick, effective “check-ups” to target individual scholar’s learning. Scholars who have mastered math concepts can use Chromebooks as a re-teaching tool to help struggling peers, enriching and improving student engagement. In addition, more frequent ongoing assessment using technology would both help scholars improve test-taking strategies, and apply these strategies when taking high-stakes standardized tests like PARCC. Chromebooks foster an environment of more risk-taking by sharing daily classwork anonymously with the whole class. Technology automates manual processes allowing more time for higher order critical thinking such as comparing and contrasting problem solving approaches. Students better work collaboratively creating word problems using digital literacy tools including audio and videos. Chromebooks provide an immense amount of opportunities for students to collaborate, and “show-off” their learning using many different modalities.

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