Keyboarding—A Basic Literacy Skill Presented by Nadine Bunnell, Keyboarding Specialist Utah State Office of Education [email protected] www.usoe.k12.ut.us/ate/keyboarding/key.htm
Feb 05, 2016
Keyboarding—A Basic Literacy Skill
Presented by Nadine Bunnell, Keyboarding Specialist
Utah State Office of [email protected]
www.usoe.k12.ut.us/ate/keyboarding/key.htm
Basic Literacy Skills?
• Reading
• Writing
• Thinking
• Speaking
• Listening
• Keyboarding
“Communicating Efficiently”
“Research continually demonstrates (e.g., Odell & Goswami, 1983) that the average job requires workers to spend 70 percent of their time productively reading, writing, speaking, and listening.”
Language Arts Core
Literacy Skills
“If thinking is added to the list, the figure will approach 100% in some occupations.”
Language Arts Core
Literacy Skills
“Obviously, the most important career preparation we can give students is to develop these [literacy] skills.”
Language Arts
Core
Literacy Skills
Phase 1: Students learn the nature of the task.
Phase 2: Students improve through repetition.
Learning Phases of Literacy
Phase 3: Students increase in response stability, accuracy, and
spontaneity of responses.
• ‘Automatic’ (see then do).
• Based on: Instant Letter Recognition Instant Word Recognition
• Developed through appropriate and purposeful practice.
• Taught best through direct instruction.
Literacy Skills are:
Keyboarding:Basic Literacy Skill
Keyboarding: Life-Long Skill
96%
What percentage of jobs require effective keyboarding skills?
People who used to find “hunt and peck” keyboarding sufficient realize that it doesn’t make much sense to have a computer with lightning speed if the information inputted into the machine trickles in like molasses in January.
Sandberg-Diment, 1984
Keyboarding: Life-Long Skill
Keyboarding is a cumulative skill – what can be effectively learned at one level depends heavily upon what has been learned earlier. If hunt ‘n peck habits become ingrained, it becomes much more difficult to develop a competent keyboarding skill. You need that basic foundation early on.
Deseret News, April 5, 1999
Keyboarding: Life-Long Skill
Educational Technology Core3rd – 5th Grade Band
“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…”
“…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 Core5th Grade Assessment
Keyboarding enhancesall other communication skills!
Keyboarding is not only a life- long literacy skill…
“Not only can elementary students learn to type, but those who do type improve their language arts skills.”
Wood & Freeman, 1931 Erickson, 1959
Keyboarding Enhances Literacy
“Keyboarding facilitates skill development in writing, spelling and grammar…
Keyboarding Enhances Literacy
“Students who can keyboard are not only faster but also more imaginative. They are free to think about composing text or copying material rather than constantly trying to find their place.” Erickson, 1959
“Students who key correctly:
• Demonstrate improved language arts skills.
• Can compose faster, • Produce documents with a neater
appearance, and• Have higher self esteem.”
Keyboarding Enhances Literacy
“In just three short months of keyboarding twice a week a teacher in the Salt Lake City elementary schools noticed benefits. She reported that ‘the kids are more careful about the beginnings and endings of their sentences.’” Salt Lake Tribune
December 1983
Keyboarding Enhances Literacy
“They recognize structure better and pay more attention to details.” In addition, she found that the keyboarding program instilled her
students withconfidence inusing a micro-computer.”
Salt Lake Tribune December 1983
Keyboarding Enhances Literacy
Keyboarding Enhances LiteracyLanguage Arts & Keyboarding
compliment each other
and…can be taught simultaneously!
You would not sit a child down at a piano and use a software program toteach piano playing.
Teacher Responsibilities
Similarly, children are taught to play sports with a coach and much guided practice. The coach provides motivation, reinforcement,
and corrective action.
Teacher Responsibilities
In learning any psychomotor skill, an essential componentof 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 & Instruction
Teacher Responsibilities
Progression of Learning
Complete TeacherGuidance
Teacher/StudentGuidance
StudentSelf-
Guidance
The teacher is of paramount importance in guiding that practice!
Teacher Responsibilities
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
THE ENDFor additional information on
Utah’s Elementary Keyboarding Program, visit
www.usoe.k12.ut.us/ate/keyboarding/key.htm