#clearthelists

So the #clearthelist movement has taken the twitterverse by storm and it is a great movement.  Teachers often have to buy their own classroom supplies and this allows people with means to buy them pencils and paper they need. 
My classroom wishlist is a bit different and honestly I feel bad sharing it because so many teachers are looking for paper and pencils.  I started my wish list a while ago with dreams and ideas for my classroom.  A drone for aerial photography for my geography students, a 3D printer to print out topographic maps, and create game pieces for historic games, and then this week after attending Summer Tech in Portland, Maine, a Google Expeditions kit and ipads got added to my wishlist.  So to clear my list it would be around $10,000. 

It seems teachers are donating to other teachers classrooms and that is great but doesn't that defeat the point.  We are limited and not even getting the basic supplied let alone in having a say in what technology we have to teach with in our classroom.  And that is the point: the teachers with the best ideas and plans don't have the resources to initiate those plans.  They don't get a say in how they go about teaching because they don't have a say in the resources they get to teach they way they want. 

I hope you all get your lists cleared by people who have the means to clear them.  Mine is a dream list so unless $10,000 is pocket change to you (I'm looking at you Zuckerburg) don't worry about me.  I make due.  Help out those teachers who need it. 
-TLM