Technology Grants
Over the past few weeks, several people in our class have expressed a concern that their future schools will not have an ideal amount of technology at their disposal.
This lack of technology may very well not exist in he schools, but this situation does not have to continue. As some of our classmates and I discussed in 409 today, this deficit becomes the responsibility of the teachers to fix. We need to become advocates for both our schools and our students. We talked about finding and writing grants to find the money and resources available to buy or be given computers and internet access.
From what I understand, grant writing is not so simple; many people make careers writing grants for people and organizations. I'm sure that books have been written on the subject, and I know that BOCES offers non-credit courses and workshops on such things.
Finding the right grants may also be tricky, however, I "googled" "technology classroom grant" and was provided with a whole list of matches. Sifting through these offered grants may be a bit time consuming and require a profesional opinion, but they're worth a shot.
Worries about lacking technology no longer seem valid to me- we are all writers, and we all have a passion for educating people, therefore we should all have a passion to find the resources that we need to make this passion a reality!!
Good luck all... Here are a few sites that I found as samples. I'm sure that hundreds more exist...
K-12 Technology Grant Index
Another Grant
4 comments:
In theory all of what you sounds good, but when you say that you can write grants for computers and internet, do you mean simply in the school itself? You see, I know from personal experience the first two weeks of classes this semester and my lack of internet access due to financial considerations that having this access at home is really important as well. I just wonder how parents who are struggling to put food on the table for their children can even worry about something like internet. Also, doesn't that make it more difficult to make sure we are meeting the federal guideline of "No child left behind"?
I understand that as teachers we need to do what we can to make sure that our classrooms have these things, but what do we do about the home situation? I simply do not believe that all kids will have the access that they need.
All kids have never had access to an education--i.e., to any of the benefits being middle class bestows on parents and their children.
So I tend not to accept this as an argument for teachers not being 21st century in their approach to technology applications.
We will leave children without home access even farther behind if we don't make schools places where all children can learn.
Learning has changed--in our field especially--and if we don't accept and act on that knowledge we too will be left behind. I hate to use Bush's language but c'est ca.
M, I think it's terrific that you are trying to explore available monies for increasing the hard/software available to adolescents in schools.
The more you educate yourself about this issue the better and more effective teacher you are going to be.
Good for people to know.
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