Poverty can negatively impact a child's education by lowering parental priorities on education, causing malnourishment and fatigue, and limiting access to resources like the internet and technology. Teachers can use strategies like building relationships, providing snacks, patience, and allowing technology access during school to help. Technology like iPads, blogs, email, and flipped classrooms can support implementing these strategies by facilitating games, communication, and self-paced learning. Addressing challenges of poverty in the classroom is important for student success.

1. POVERTY
INTERNET AND EDUCATION

2. HOW DOES POVERTY AFFECT EDUCATION?
HOW CAN EDUCATION AFFECT POVERTY?

3. % OF SCHOOL AGED CHILDREN LIVING
IN POVERTY

4. WHO IS VULNERABLE?
• Workability and effort to work are big factors in low income families. If
parents depend on welfare as their main source of income, then their
family will live below the poverty line.
• Employment doesn’t always mean families will not be low income.
The type of job also affects income amounts as well.
• People with little to no educational background are likely to live in
poverty and their children are likely to obtain the same amount of
education and live in poverty as well.

5. NO INTERNET……NO COMPUTER…..NO
MID

6. LOW INCOME VS. MIDDLE-UPPER
CLASS
Challenges for children Results of these challenges
living in poverty in the classroom.
• Importance of education • Little interest in learning
rated low by parents. • Weak and not able to retain
information means falling
• Children come to school behind.
malnourished and tired. • No access to internet and
technological resources
• No access to additional means little to no
resources. collaboration or classroom
• No support with collaboration.
homework • Students don’t have the
opportunity for enhanced
• Inadequate supplies and learning that takes place
tools for learning. online or with other
technologies such as MIDs.

7. TEACHER RESOURCES
http://youtu.be/EPLO6kfcxoo
http://youtu.be/KVHubJjPE4o

8. STRATEGIES FOR TEACHING
AND INCORPORATING TECHNOLOGY

9. • Build relationships with the students. Ask them how they are doing,
or invite them into the classroom before class or during recess to
talk.
• Provide them with a snack before the day starts, many schools with
low income families will have some sort of breakfast program in
place.
• Be more patient with them, and give them more time to complete
assignments and homework .
• Give them the opportunity to use the technology during school
hours, whether they come in before class, or stay in at recess.
• Play games that build attention skills using computers, phys-ed,
board games or cards, and even art.
• Model the desired behaviour and remain hopeful and positive.

10. HOW CAN WE USE TECHNOLOGY TO IMPLEMENT
THESE STRATEGIES?

11. • Ipads and IPods can be used to play games that promote
patience and build attention skills.
• Students can use online journals or blogs to tell how they are
feeling. Sometimes it is difficult to voice problems when you are
already insecure about things.
• Email can be used to communicate with the teacher, or the
parents .
• Computer games and programs can be used to enhance
learning, such as RAZ kids for reading or math games.
• In a “flipped classroom”, students could work at their own pace
and get work done at their own pace. This could minimize the
stresses of school because there are already so many things they
need to worry about.
• Story writing and things such as digital storytelling can be used to
create characters that tell their story to help them cope with their
life.

12. Additional Resources
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
dyn/content/article/2010/04/08/AR2010040804802.html
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/chat/chat119.shtml
http://www.ehow.com/how_7903155_teach-low-income-students.html

13. References
Jensen, Eric Teaching With Poverty in Mind (2009) ASCD Publications
Stats Canada
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/75-001-x/2008105/article/10578-
eng.htm
http://www.teachingwithpovertyinmind.com/