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Ms. Ricke from Chicago, IL is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Upgrade Us To iPads

My students need iPads in order to access to current technology and the internet in order to further their reading, technology and science skills.

  • $838 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

My 18 month old niece can turn on my brother's iPad, pick her video and turn it on. Many of my ten year old students can't even find the on-switch of most of the computers and technology at our school until they're taught, because they don't have these devices in their homes or communities.

My 60 urban 5th graders are in large city in Illinois, where most parents don't have the resources to equip their homes with things like computers or internet access.

In fact at least 97% of our kids receive free or reduced lunch and free breakfast. Many get their pencils and folders from local charity drives. Our school has a few donated (read: old and outdated) desktop computers available for classroom use and a few more extremely stripped down and only partially functional netbooks for us to use. As a charter school we are largely responsible for creating our curriculum and have a strong technology push, but are often overlooked by companies seeking the tax write-off of helping an elementary school guide young minds into the 21st century world. And yet my students crave learning through technology. We have discovered that there are times Youtube can teach in five minutes what fifteen pages of xeroxed text cannot, especially to students with reading challenges.

My Project

With a set of iPads we could regularly access the internet for a host of reasons (our netbooks frequently crash and refuse to connect to the outside world). The cameras in the iPads will allow us to join the classroom project of ProjectNoah.org, a crowd sourced wildlife siting program where students can help to identify and catalog the life in their area and learn with students in other communities about the animals and plants they live with (a Common Core goal!) I will be able to put books of all levels into the library so that no child will be worried that they'll be caught having to read 'the baby books' and everyone will look forward to reading the way about 85% of the adults on my last flight were - on a tablet. Specific apps will allow them to explore topics like geography, biology and vocabulary in ways that a paper book or handout can't compete with. As tech-savvy students they will become computer-competent adults with a better chance to make their ideal lives a reality.

Where my students live and go to school, the school is often the only place they are allowed to access technology other than the television.

Having up-to-date technology in the classrooms will give them that edge they'll need to get into good high schools and then into good colleges. Giving visual learners and kinetic-touch learners and audio learners equal access to their individual way of learning will give them an advantage over their 'textbook-taught' peers in a new and powerful way.

Ms. Ricke
Grades 3-5

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Apple® iPad® mini Wi-Fi - tablet - iOS 6 - 16 GB - 7.9 • Best Buy for Business $329.99 1 $329.99
Apple® iPad® mini Wi-Fi - tablet - iOS 6 - 16 GB - 7.9 • Best Buy for Business $329.99 1 $329.99

Materials cost

$659.98

Vendor shipping charges

 $12.00

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.90

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$711.88

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$125.63

Total project goal

$837.51

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $837.51

12 Donors

-$512.21

Donations toward project cost

-$465.38

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$46.83

match offer

-$290.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$246.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$43.50

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$35.30

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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