Let’s Talk Keyboarding
Four new keyboarding products available to kickstart your school’s keyboarding needs. Why are these important?
If you teach in a Common Core state, there are two foundational reasons keyboarding skills are essential:
- Common Core yearly assessments (i.e., PARCC, Smarter Balanced) expect an intermediate knowledge of keyboarding. For example (from PARCC, SPARCC Consortium, and schools taking the test):
- Change formatting
- Click/tap
- Constructed response (word limits)
- Copy-paste
- Drag-drop
- Highlight
- Keyboard with sufficient speed and accuracy to complete test on time
- Manipulate graphs
- Use navigation and answer tools
- Plot points
- Run simulations
- Scroll
- Select and drag or slide
- Select area, object, text, multiple items
- Solve tech problems quickly
- Think-while-typing
- Toggle between tabs
- Type one-three pages at a sitting
- Type with text editor
- Unselect
- Use calculator, protractor, ruler, video
- Common Core expects the use of technology as a learning tool across all subjects. Keyboarding is fundamental to accomplishing that
Structured Learning has four new keyboarding resources (plus one more for homeschoolers) to make this happen:
