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Ms. Ma from Hayward, CA is requesting instructional technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Capture the World Cultural Insights with a Google Cardboard!

Help me give my students the powerful Google cardboards, so that they could be guided to feel, obtain Chinese /world cultural insights without traveling, which is a luxury for many students in our Title 1 school.

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Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

The majority of my students are Latino /African American high school youth.

Upon walking into my Chinese classrooms to learn Chinese as a world language course, some students came to tell me that they had never got the opportunity to travel outside the city they lived in... I contacted some travel agencies, hoping to book a trip during the winter break for my young learners who were eager to visit China, experiencing the life and culture of the people living in the other side of the global village... Well, I stopped the search when finding out a 9-day trip would cost $2800 per student... Not even ONE student in my school could afford it...

My heart sank... until I heard about such a technology product: Insignia™ - Virtual Reality Viewer / Google Cardboard, which could create an amazing traveling experience for students while staying inside my classrooms to learn the language and culture of a faraway country... May we get 30 sets of such product, please...

My Project

As a teacher teaching World Language - Mandarin Chinese, many of my students have never got a chance to travel out of the state, let alone to a faraway nation located at the other side of the global village. Due to the fact that my school is a Title 1 school with more than half of the students are from low-income families, travelling during holidays or winter /spring /summer break would definitely a luxury in life.

To learn a world language well, students need to find a way to feel and experience the culture rooted into the language they are learning to master.

I had been searching for various ways to make such things happen to these young learners for years, until I heard about and personally tried Google Cardboard - the Virtual Reality Viewer. To my great surprise and joy, these cardboard glasses are so capable of bringing images to students' life! They can instantly experience a cinema-like virtual reality world when they are guided to follow me to look at pictures on smartphones or watching geographical videos.

When I borrowed some of these Virtual Reality Viewers to show my class the images of Great Wall of China and the Forbidden City, my students are noticeably more engaged in their observation and less disruptive of their peers when they are given the tasks /assignment to handle at the end of the observation.

The products that I have selected will help my students effectively by giving them the precious opportunity to feel and experience the cultural insights that they would otherwise have little chance to feel and experience. I sincerely hope that, with your kind sponsorship, such basic new technology gadgets will make a big difference in my students' World language learning journey.

Ms. Ma Hayward High School Grades 9-12

Equity Focus

At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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More than half 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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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Insignia? - Virtual Reality Viewer - brown • Best Buy Education $2.84 25 $71.00
Insignia? - Virtual Reality Viewer - brown • Best Buy Education $2.84 11 $31.24

Materials cost

$102.24

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $9.35

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.53

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$143.12

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$25.26

Total project goal

$168.38

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $168.38

3 Donors

-$166.61

Donations toward project cost

-$143.12

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$23.49

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$1.77

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