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•Brainstorm ideas
Students who key correctly:
•Demonstrate improved
language arts skills.
•Can compose faster,
•Produce documents
with a neater
appearance, and
•Have higher self
esteem.
Keyboarding: Life-Long Skill
What percentage of jobs require
effective keyboarding skills?
96%
Competencies written by a group
of Spring Branch teachers for
our district. Includes Skills and
Criteria. Please refer to
Keyboarding Competencies Handout.
Educational Technology
Targets 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 Technology
Targets 3rd Grade
How fast does an average third grader write?
8 wpm
Minumum recommended words per minute for a third
grader to type?
8 wpm
How fast does an average fifth grader write?
11 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 to
1. Take this information back to your entire
grade level
2. Develop a written keyboarding program within
the first 6 weeks of school for
submission.
Important Fact
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
Teacher Guidance
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 wellwritten 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
Demonstration
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
Specifics that are useful to demonstrate:
•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.
Type to Learn 3
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 they
begin where the left off each time.
6. Can be purchased from Scholastic
for $15 for home practice.
7. Customizable vocabulary level.
Type to Learn Jr.
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.
Easy Tech - Keyboarding
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.
Portable 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
Other Keyboarding Practice
Options
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 programs
Learn2Type- free web based typing program. Go to
http://www.easy-typing.com/ and click Learn2Type
for Kids
EasyType- buy online and download for $12
http://www.easy-typing.com/
Motivation/Reinforcement
There is no Technology grade on our report cards.
How could you recognize students for completing
all the lessons in a program?
•Brainstorm ideas
Location
• 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.
Scheduling
• 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 23 times a year.
• Rotating COW laptops, Writers, Alphasmarts
• Special Ed support
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
SchedulingKeyboarding 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
Important Fact
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
Assessment for Third Graders
•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.
Educational Technology Goal
5th Grade Assessment
“…Students will be assessed during the
spring of their 5th Grade year. The
assess-ment will include a keyboarding
skill test, a technology literacy selfassessment, and the inclusion of at least
two pieces of student work in an
electronic portfolio.”
Presentation for Principals
http://edtech.springbranchisd.com/Portals/72/documents/elem_horiz.pdf
Departments
Curriculum
&
Technology
Curriculum
&
Instruction
Keyboarding
Services
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TTL
Educational
Technology
http://edtech.springbranchisd.com