•Brainstorm ideas

•Demonstrate improved language arts skills.

•Can compose faster,

•Produce documents with a neater appearance, and

•Have higher self esteem.

Students who key correctly:

Keyboarding: Life-Long Skill

96%

What percentage of jobs require effective keyboarding skills?

Competencies written by a groupof Spring Branch teachers forour district. Includes Skills andCriteria. Please refer to Keyboarding Competencies Handout.

Educational TechnologyTargets 3rd Grade“It is recommended that in addition to the standards and performance indicators, keyboarding first be taught as a concentrated unit in 3rd Grade and reviewed in each succeeding grade to allow students to achieve a high degree of proficiency…”

Educational TechnologyTargets 3rd GradeHow fast does an average third grader write?

11 wpmHow fast does an average fifth grader write?

Minumum recommended words per minute for a third grader to type?

8 wpm

8 wpm

Minumum recommended words per minute for a fifth grader to type?

20 wpm

You have a special role as your grade level representative for this session. Your task to1. Take this information back to your entire

grade level2. Develop a written keyboarding program within

the first 6 weeks of school forsubmission.

While most kids and adults can learn to hunt and peck on their own, real typing speed depends on PROPER TECHNIQUE. Michael J. Himowitz, Baltimore Sun

Important Fact

Children are taught to play sports with a coach and much guided practice. The coach provides motivation, reinforcement,

and corrective action.

Teacher Guidance

The complexity of teaching keyboarding requires an extensive and extremely well-written software program. (However), no software program has been shown to be superior to capable, live keyboarding instruction.

Who Should Teach Keyboarding and When Should it Be Taught, Margaret J. Erthal,

Business Education Forum, Oct. 1998

Teacher Guidance

Demonstration is perhaps the most important single method of providing instruction in keyboarding…”An ounce of showing is worth a pound of discussing” and “A gram of demonstration is worth a kilogram of discovery”… for trial-and-error methods are uneconomical and inefficient in complex skill learning.

Typewriting: Learning and Instruction

Demonstration

Demonstration

•The thumb is only used for the space bar.

•Never use the Caps Lock key.•Use the bumps on the key board to help you find Home Row without looking.

•There are two Shift keys. Use them with opposite hands.

•Press and hold the Shift key first, then type the letter that needs to be capitalized.

•Try to type in a steady rhythm.

Specifics that are useful to demonstrate:

1. Available on the network for every elementary school in the district

2. Rated for Grades 2- Adult

3. Reinforces spelling, grammar, and composition.

4. 22 lessons cover all letter and number keys. First 14 lessons cover all the letters.

5. Tracks student progress so theybegin where the left off each time.

6. Can be purchased from Scholasticfor $15 for home practice.

7. Customizable vocabulary level.

Type to Learn 3

1. Available on the network for every elementary school in the district

2. Rated for Grades K-2

3. Introduces hemisphering (two halves of the keyboard.)

4. Practices locations of letters and numbers, suing shift key.

5. Short words and sentences.

Type to Learn Jr.

1. Web based program available on the internet for school or home use

2. Entire keyboard in four lessons.

3. Your login would be short SBISD name with school number at the end. Password is tech109.

Easy Tech - Keyboarding

1. The Writer – Bond proposal includes 1 cart of these for each elementary campus in SBISD. Keyboarding software included. One school has them now as a pilot campus.

2. AlphaSmart - Neo– Owned on some campuses already. Older models used with flip charts. Newer models have “Ultrakey” software on them.

3. Other brands

Portable Keyboarding

1. Type the alphabet – The alphabet is so ingrained in students’ minds that can be a strong tool for increasing speed

2. Basic words or phrases in PowerPoint– Utah Keyboarding Site – Resources http://www.schools.utah.gov/ATE/keyboarding/resources.htm

3. Online typing practice programsLearn2Type- free web based typing program. Go to http://www.easy-typing.com/ and click Learn2Type for KidsEasyType- buy online and download for $12 http://www.easy-typing.com/

Other Keyboarding Practice Options

Motivation/ReinforcementThere is no Technology grade on our report cards.How could you recognize students for completing all the lessons in a program?

•Brainstorm ideas

• Existing Computer Lab

• Centers in the classrooms or library

• Lab of older computers

• Type to Learn 3 can be accessed by any Windows computer that can access Japan

• Scheduled time for grade levels, plus

• Look for pockets of flexible lab time that teachers can sign up for as needed

• Laptop Computers traveling between classrooms

• Writers, AlphaSmarts, etc.

Location

• Scheduled lab time – preferably chunks, 3-5 times a week for 15-20 minutes for 4-6 weeks

• Any workable modification of the above example, continuing to focus on chunks of time

• Open labs before and after school

• Lab dedicated to Keyboarding for daily use scheduled 2-3 times a year.

• Rotating COW laptops, Writers, Alphasmarts

• Special Ed support

Scheduling

Scheduling –Things that are known not to be effective

•Teaching keyboarding once a week or every other week for 20 minutes

•Allowing students to practice in a keyboarding program without a teacher monitoring their technique - especially during initial learning

Scheduling-Keyboarding Enhances Literacy

Language Arts & Keyboarding compliment each other

and…can be taught simultaneously!

Reinforce reading, spelling, vocabulary, grammar and composition. Ultimate goal is

to create/compose on the computer.

It is the responsibility of all teachers to show that keyboarding skill

is relevant in the lives of all students.

KEYBOARDING —A Basic

Literacy Skill

In learning any psychomotor skill, an essential component of the learning process is an active teacher who observes and evaluates the process of learning and provides feedback in the form of correctives (comments and demonstrations) to help the learner improve. Typewriting: Learning and Instruction

Important Fact

•Record words per minute for each student.This is done within the Type to Learn program for you. Should be viewed on a regular basis. Can be printed out. Instructions included in “Type to Learn” handout.

•Check list for good typing techniques.These can be completed by the teacher or self-assessed by the student. Refer to handouts.

Assessment for Third Graders

“…Students will be assessed during the spring of their 5th Grade year. The assess-ment will include a keyboarding skill test, a technology literacy self-assessment, and the inclusion of at least two pieces of student work in an electronic portfolio.”

Educational Technology Goal5th Grade Assessment

Presentation for Principalshttp://edtech.springbranchisd.com/Portals/72/documents/elem_horiz.pdf

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