Nearly all students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education.
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In the classroom, students will use the tablets to interact and learn about what exists outside the Bronx. A large part will be learning digital literacy by accessing technology to perform daily assignments online. Students will learn about math and science through videos and interactive lessons that are not possible without technology. Students will learn about financial literacy through online banking, budgeting, and money management. They will learn how to navigate websites and applications that they will need to know how to use post graduation. Our school struggles to be print-rich because of budget cuts and funding shortages, but with the tablets students will be able to access databases of literature. Often, we have to share four people to one computer, students heaped together and having to read the same text at the same pace. This makes it difficult for students to focus and sustain attention due to their cognitive disabilities.
These tablets will provide access to the world outside of the Bronx, access to information that will encourage students learning in a way that they have not known before.
A large part of the reason we need these tablets is for heavy levels of differentiation in instruction that meet the needs of special needs students. They need to be able to access information at their own pace and learn how to navigate digital materials if they are to be successful in their future.
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In the classroom, students will use the tablets to interact and learn about what exists outside the Bronx. A large part will be learning digital literacy by accessing technology to perform daily assignments online. Students will learn about math and science through videos and interactive lessons that are not possible without technology. Students will learn about financial literacy through online banking, budgeting, and money management. They will learn how to navigate websites and applications that they will need to know how to use post graduation. Our school struggles to be print-rich because of budget cuts and funding shortages, but with the tablets students will be able to access databases of literature. Often, we have to share four people to one computer, students heaped together and having to read the same text at the same pace. This makes it difficult for students to focus and sustain attention due to their cognitive disabilities.
These tablets will provide access to the world outside of the Bronx, access to information that will encourage students learning in a way that they have not known before.
A large part of the reason we need these tablets is for heavy levels of differentiation in instruction that meet the needs of special needs students. They need to be able to access information at their own pace and learn how to navigate digital materials if they are to be successful in their future.