http://www.flickr.com/photos/laihiu/3141339104/

Y T On….. Keyboarding in the Primary Grades

houghtsour

http://www.flickr.com/photos/radioflyer007/3635999941/Student writing develops faster through word processing because it facilitates the review and revision learningprocess.

Zeitz, 2008 http://im.ly/ed3bd/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sanjoselibrary/2800671195/

….only a small proportion of classroom teachers have any formal preparation for teachingkeyboarding (Sormunen, 1991).

Zeitz, 2008 - http://im.ly/ed3bd/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigpresh/3860586034/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/majornelson/451565850/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/christyxcore/2937756154/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tintin1212/3355113221/

Everyone seems to agree that keyboard familiarization is in

order, but whether to stop there or to teach touch typing to

elementary school students is controversial.

http://stager.org/keyboarding.htmlShuller, 1989

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bupp/424464685/

“Learning key location requires a sequential introduction of thekeys along with a great deal of repetition and reinforcement to develop the kinesthetic memory traces leading to keyboarding automaticity.”

Zeitz, 2008 - http://im.ly/ed3bd/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/toddhiestand/197704394/

..five and six year olds who are unfamiliar with keyboards can compose more quickly and easily on computers than by hand (Wetzel, 1985). http://stager.org/keyboarding.html

Shuller, 1989

http://www.flickr.com/photos/doghand/92385549/

[Typing] efficiency is expanded if keyboarders type short letter clusters and words as single units instead of groups of individual letters (e.g., er, ing, the, my)

Zeitz, 2008 - http://im.ly/ed3bd/

Students learn jingles to aid in memorizing key location

FOUR 30-minute lessons are all it takes for early elementary students to learn the letters on the keyboard and correct finger use. Each lesson can be split into two 15-minute lessons

http://www.nailitnow.com.au/

http://almenatyping.com/cart/index.php

Students learn all 26 letters of the alphabet in one quick easy lesson. Practice lessons are given on the software that helps students develop speed and accuracy. In less than 5 hours they students can be typing 20 wpm.

Almena Method

Nail It Now Method

http://www.keyboardclassroom.com/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sazeod/135944917/

Gertner and Norman (1984) have observed that the main advantage of touch typing is in copying http://stager.org/keyboarding.html

Shuller, 1989

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lshave/3576317784/

‘Take the pencil out of the process’ – especially for children with ASD.

Leslie Broun, 2009, http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_7749/is_200909/ai_n39230401/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bdorfman/2261551849/

Teach K-2 students to:

• Use left hand right hand correctly.

• Use the shift key to capitalize.

• Use the space bar between words. (reinforce 1 space)

• Use the space bar after punctuation. (1 space after periods)

What are your Primary Keyboarding Expectations?

http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/teacher_resources/Keyboarding/index.html

Elementary students need to be able to type at least as fast as they can write by hand to avoid interfering with their writing process

http://www.flickr.com/photos/striatic/1629269/

http://stager.org/keyboarding.htmlShuller, 1989

http://www.flickr.com/photos/radioflyer007/402408981/

Fry (1987) has proposed that schools eliminate the teaching of cursive writing and substitute keyboarding.

http://stager.org/keyboarding.htmlShuller, 1989

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sanjoselibrary/2839835109/

Early introduction reduces bad habit development and provides additional benefits that include improvements in spelling, writing, and reading comprehension. Zeitz, 2008 - http://im.ly/ed3bd/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewscott/2950585973/

There is no empirical evidence to substantiate the claim that teaching touch typing to students who first learned to type without proper fingering techniques is very difficult or impossible http://stager.org/keyboarding.html

Shuller, 1989

http://freeonlinetypinggames.com/typing-games/free-typing-games/

http://tux4kids.alioth.debian.org/tuxtyping.php

Utah State - http://www.uen.org/cc/uen/core/pub/displayCoreCourse.action?ccId=2033

http://www.typingmaster.com/individuals/bubbles.asp

http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/keyboarding_games.html

http://www.headsprout.com/code/launchMA.cfm

http://www.e-learningforkids.org/Courses/Keyboarding_Skills/launch.html

http://www.techconnect.glencoe.com/techconnect/keyboarding/start.htm

http://www.abcya.com/standard_keyboard.htm

Barracuda

http://www.powertyping.com/baracuda/baracuda.htm

http://www.annrymer.com/keyseeker/

http://edu.kde.org/ktouch/

http://www.tvokids.com/framesets/play.html?game=222

http://www.shambles.net/pages/staff/keyBskills/http://www2.edc.org/NCIP/AR.html

http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech072.shtml

Other Resources

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydyTmSPYtv8