Homeroom Reform Essay

So many things can help better us as students to improve our learning and education.

There are 140 kids at San Pasqual Academy, a high school for foster youth.If we were to win the $5,000 dollars towards our education we believe that our students would be able to finish all homework and assignments. We believe that we all have the ability to improve in our education. For example we have an English 10 class that is technology based. We definitely need funding because we only have so many laptops that we can check out after school.

Each student has a blog. Thanks to our English teacher we have become a paperless class learning new technology. For example we get to learn about different websites, what they are based on and how they work, for example we use Voki, Blogger, Google Docs and our favorite one which is our Delicious accounts. This website lets us bookmark different sites and we can make tags. When Ms. Priester brings up new sites or different things that we are going to try out she normally makes a slide show/ PowerPoint that teaches or demonstrates the steps in order for us to learn how to use the websites. Ms. Priester has shown us different techniques in order to get us prepared for college starting from writing essays to making diagrams to the coolest of all designing our own forms or even test. Also, I am an English language learner and used a website called Rosetta Stone in order to improve my English pronunciations and how to write words correctly. If we were able to share this with our whole school and maybe to other students at other schools they would learn that technology and having laptops makes work more enjoyable then writing everything out on paper.

Having the laptops would make teaching better and having a better learning and positive environment as well as not having to worry about not having enough laptops for a whole class. This project will help the students on this campus by saving them many hours of studying and improving their grades. Another way the laptops will help the students is by knowing that when the computers don’t work in the cafe they have another source to use with wireless Internet. When students graduate and get ready for college they are expected to be well versed in the use of laptops. Throughout time as well as personal experience it has been shown that laptops are more effective in producing higher education and more efficient results.

Having laptops will not only improve the education throughout high school but also prepare us for college since college is normally all technology based. Many of our students enjoy technology and many have become even more technologically advanced on their own. Our students at San Pasqual Academy would be very grateful if we were to win this prize.

I wrote this essay with Bella." We wrote it for the KNSD Homeroom Reform Essay Contest.