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Digital Wish
Heather Chirtea
Fellowship Awarded 2008

Digital Wish is on a mission to modernize American classrooms and prepare students for tomorrow's workforce. Similar to a gift registry, educators build technology wish lists and describe how each resource will be utilized in the classroom. Their classroom's story is then posted online, and parents, community members, and local businesses are invited to grant technology wishes through online donations. Behind the scenes, Digital Wish works with institutions to set up national technology grants, employee matching gifts, and local giving projects to help modernize classrooms nationwide.

Previously, as the longstanding president of Tool Factory, an educational software publisher, Heather traveled widely throughout the United States to conduct over 400 lively seminars on classroom technology integration each year. She watched as funding for education technology continuously declined, and today over 75% of teachers classify themselves as "often in need of" or "desperate for" technology resources. Heather created Digital Wish to empower teachers to solve their own technology shortfalls at a local level, and to prepare our student workforce with the skills necessary to succeed in the changing workplace.

Visit www.digitalwish.org to learn more.








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