What: Keyboarding is a skill that empowers students to leverage the benefits of technology. A child that can touch-type 15 or more words per minute will write more, edit more, read more, think more and communicate more. This taskforce was formed to look for the best place to teach this skill in an already overcrowded curriculum. It met online for most of the time.
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So What: An already full curriculum was the biggest barrier to this part of the technology plan. All of the 21st century skills this plan seeks to instill can be done as a nature infusion of existing standards-based instruction. Keyboarding on the other hand is a separate item that must be formally taught at some level. The challenge I faced in this task was to bring principals with a traditional view of schooling and the burden of high-stakes test scores on their shoulders together with the viability of allocating time to teach keyboarding. It is worth it?
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