My LC partner and I were planning on applying for the PDAF grant this year but didn’t end up getting around to it. We had hoped to create a Snoezelen type sensory room for our learning centre as we have many students who would strongly benefit from a calming environment. 

If I were to write a grant proposal for one piece of educational technology I would ask for an overhead projector for my LC as we have been waiting since September to get one! This is an issue I never thought I would have as they are essential in today's classrooms!

I did also receive a heathy schools grant this year.

The group of students that needs to be advocated for in my classroom are those grade 7's with learning disabilities affecting reading and writing. I feel like there has to be a PC program or a piece of ed tech that could fill this gap but am unsure what it is at the moment.

Although this lit review is more about the theory and practice itself rather than specific types of ed tech, I think it's a great reminder of our why and the importance of advocating for students and writing grants when we can to fill voids in the system.

Earlier this year I applied for a $10,000 technology grant from Best Buy with the hopes for getting iPads for my grade primary/one class. I was not successful.

I still feel my class would benefit greatly from access to more iPads. These would help all the students in every subject area, but would be particularly useful in communicating with my non-verbal students and language learners.

When I think about my classroom, a group that needs advocating for is my EAL students, particularly the ones who have moved past EAL support but still require some additional support. I think having an ed tech resource available for them to support their reading and writing success would be really beneficial for them. I am not sure what that item would be but I would hope something that can support a wide variety of EAL students at varying stages of their learning journey.

Last year I joined on with the grade 5 Leadership in my school and have starting thinking about opportunities that a grant might be applicable for some of the roles these students take on. This year we were hoping to work on producing a year book for the school, but that didn't work out as planned. I would like to continue to think on that and access some cameras to allow students to take charge of that project.

When it comes to advocating for my students, I see a real need for more resources for those in the Learning Center, especially students who face learning challenges. If I were to write another grant, I’d focus on getting personal iPads or Chromebooks for these students. Having access to these devices would help them with personalized learning apps and make it easier for them to engage in lessons at their own pace. It would be a game-changer in helping them become more independent and better supported in their learning.

In my classroom specifically, iPads are always super helpful for my EAL students for the variety of apps they provide and taking pictures through Google translate. I am currently using one of my own and one the school was able to provide me with 8 EAL students in my class.

One piece of educational technology I would like for my classroom are Makey Makeys and a Cricut. Both allow for students to be more creative in how they show me what they know or have learned.

I just realized Chris just shared this on the next page (oops!)

I am excited to actually do a grant proposal as part of class in order to do it. I find that I get turned off quite easily when the writing gets intense. Additionally, I have worked most of my career where I had access to technology or funds within my school.

Currently, in my school, I want a set of chromebooks or ipads that are located in my room. For my courses, there is a lot of research and want to stop fighting over the chromebooks with other teachers. Our chromebooks are failing and there doesn't seem to be replacements readily. Our tech guy is working on it. In my last school, I had my own tech tubs and loved it!!! I would do anything not to feel like the chrome cart hog. This would make my life easier, especially as I have a lot of students with tech as part of their adaptations. They need it for writing and I pride myself on inclusion and creating great accessible resources for them.

Finally, I want to thank everyone for their wonderful resources that they posted here. It makes the omnious task more accessible to me!

I have written grant applications for scholarships before (I guess these would be more like a burasry), and have been successful in that twice in my undergrad and twice in my B.Ed. As a new teacher, I have never made a grant application in this context, I didn't even know this was something we could do! I will defintely reading through everyones posts and looking more into how/where/when I can do this.

Like lots of us here, iPads are one of the only ways I can successfully communicate with my EAL students. Last year, I had 4 EAL kids, all different languages (Russian, Korean, Mandarin, Turkish). They each had an iPad and it became so time consuming to translate everything into 4 languages after/during a lesson. My math coach gave me the brilliant idea to use the Microsoft Translate app (instead of Google Translate) because it had a better interface for picking up what I was saying via the iPad's mic and instantly translate for them. We ran into the issue of the iPads picking up other voices/noises so the translations weren't really accurate. My math coach lent me a pair of her airpods, so I would connect my air pods to my iPhone, create a group chat on Microsoft Translate and invite my 4 EAL boys, they would join from their iPads and since I had the airpods in, the mic was picking up from the headphones, so it was only picking up the words I was saying and directly translating it for the boys in the group, in their respective languages. This was a game changer for us!

I would love to get a grant for the same type of thing, even though my EAL primaries can't really read their own language yet, I know that microsoft translate can also speak translations aloud which would be really helpful. I would also love to get a 3D printer. Jeff Hennigar printed out a ton of math manipulative for me (pattern blocks, dice, counters, etc) and his students got to do the coding (?) for it.

In terms of resources needed, I think a class set of Chromebooks would be amazing. There are a few students in my room, who struggle particularly with reading and writing, and having these available to them would be awesome for them.

Also, I would love to get a class set of mini microphones so students could record and share their storytelling, class work, et. with peers and family!