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Students at Pennoyer School District 79 will go beyond the classroom as part of their social studies class with a long-term curriculum/instructional project.
Janelle Santos, a Pennoyer class of 2002 graduate serving in the Peace Corps in Pohnpei, an island that is a part of the Federated States of Micronesia, will correspond with the sixth-grade social studies classes over the next two years exchanging pictures and stories in an effort to inspire learning about geography, culture and people on the other side of the globe.
The students have already worked in groups and came up with a first round of questions for Santos.
Santos will visit the classroom to meet the students and do a show-and-tell visit in two years.
Provide 21st Century skills for elementary public school children.
Pennoyer School District #79
Pennoyer School, in Pennoyer School District #79, is a PK-8 public school just outside of Chicago serving nearly 450 students. The students in this school district currently do not have a lot of access to computers, instructional technology, web 2.0, etc. The current ratio of computers to students is 60:450, or 13%.
Grant Goals
Increase access to computers/web 2.0 from 13% to 20%
Diversify learning products to include 21st Century skills
Increase focused training of staff to unified curriculum/instruction
Overview
The Pennoyer Technology Grant combines machinery and instruction. It will allow for the blending of the science of teaching with the art of teaching. The students will learn and demonstrate their learning in current ways. For example, instead of peer editing others' papers with ink and paper, the students can demonstrate collaboration and peer editing through blogging and collaborative writing projects. The students who have different ways of expressing themselves will find greater success with multiple assessment options.
Teachers will learn and grow through training and development and discovery with the new tools in their toolkits. This grant will make access to actual computers go from 13% to 20%, or 1 in 5. This will hugely impact the ability for multi-media instruction and learning. It will also result in a better prepared student population for high school (and beyond).
Deliverables:
25-30 laptops/netbooks/notebooks (PC)
25 iPod Touch devices
Virtualization - back end servers
How will the 50K be Used?
Budget Notes: Training, professional development, software
$ 15,000 Upgrade student lab 7-10yrs old
$ 15,000 25-30 Notebook/Netbook machines
$ 5,000 25 iPod Touch devices
$ 15,000 iPads and accessories for student usage
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