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Ms. Katrina Kaplan from Brooklyn, NY is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Chromebooks for Brooklyn Game Changers!

My students need 5 Chromebooks for conducting research, sharing and receiving feedback on their writing, and mastering the necessary skills for media literacy and critical thinking in a technology-dependent world.

  • $988 goal

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My Students

My students are 10th grade boys attending public school. They require much greater access to and greater familiarity with the power tools of the 21st century.

Two important concepts we grapple with in the classroom are the power of authorship and the value of consumerism.

I encourage my students to become both skillful in using technology and critical of how it gets used to disseminate, share and interpret information.

While we use the resources available to us for a variety of project-based learning activities, my students also need greater practice at developing skills such as sending formal email messages, conducting thorough internet research, evaluating sources, sharing information appropriately, and creating their own media.

My Project

Access to technology in the classroom means big ideas for learning become fully realized. While our access to laptops and computers is severely limited, we aim to use tools such as Google Docs in the classroom as a powerful teaching tool for students to share their writing and to give and receive feedback, and Google Present for students to work collaboratively and share their research with the class. We need 5 Chromebooks to help our classroom with the following projects!

We aim to use technology in the classroom to create book trailers and publish book reviews for the novels we read, to create games for vocabulary acquisition, for dissecting current events (from presidential elections to changes in the weather), and for studying how our cultures and individual identities are reflected in both popular forms of media and in the texts we read.

Media literacy is an essential part of our ELA classroom, with emphasis on the increasing need for students to understand their important roles in media production and consumption.

Ms. Katrina Kaplan Eagle Academy Young Men II Grades 9-12

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More than three‑quarters 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
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Lenovo - N22 11.6'Chromebook - Intel Celeron - 2GB Memory - 16GB eMMC Flash Memory - Black • Best Buy Education $159.43 5 $797.15

Materials cost

$797.15

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.96

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$839.11

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$148.08

Total project goal

$987.19

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $987.19

14 Donors

-$491.39

Donations toward project cost

-$421.43

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$69.96

match offer

-$491.39

Match offer toward project cost

-$417.68

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$73.71

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.41

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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