KeyboardingA Basic Literacy Skill

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KeyboardingA Basic Literacy Skill

• Presented by Nadine Bunnell, Keyboarding
  SpecialistUtah State Office of
  Educationnbunnell_at_usoe.k12.ut.uswww.usoe.k12.ut.
  us/ate/keyboarding/key.htm

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Basic Literacy Skills?

• Speaking
• Listening
• Keyboarding

• Reading
• Writing
• Thinking

Communicating Efficiently
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Literacy Skills
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
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Literacy Skills
If thinking is added to the list, the figure
will approach 100 in some occupations.
Language Arts Core
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Literacy Skills
Obviously, the most important career
preparation we can give students is to develop
these literacy skills.
Language Arts Core
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Learning Phases of Literacy
Phase 1 Students learn the nature of the task.
Phase 2 Students improve through repetition.
Phase 3 Students increase in response
stability, accuracy, and spontaneity of
responses.
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Literacy Skills are

• Automatic (see then do).
• Based on
• Instant Letter Recognition
• Instant Word Recognition
• Developed through appropriate and purposeful
  practice.
• Taught best through direct instruction.

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KeyboardingBasic Literacy Skill
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Keyboarding Life-Long Skill
What percentage of jobs require effective
keyboarding skills?
96
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Keyboarding Life-Long Skill
People who used to find hunt and peck
keyboarding sufficient realize that it doesnt
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
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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
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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
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Educational Technology Core5th 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 self-assessment, and the inclusion of at
least two pieces of student work in an electronic
portfolio.
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Keyboarding is not only a life- long literacy
skill
Keyboarding enhancesall other communication
skills!
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Keyboarding Enhances Literacy
Not only can elementary students learn to type,
but those who do type improve their language arts
skills. Wood Freeman, 1931
Erickson, 1959
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Keyboarding Enhances Literacy
Keyboarding facilitates skill development in
writing, spelling and grammar
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
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Keyboarding Enhances Literacy
Students who key correctly

• Demonstrate improved language arts skills.
• Can compose faster,
• Produce documents with a neater appearance, and
• Have higher self esteem.

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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
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Keyboarding Enhances Literacy
They recognize structure better and pay more
attention to details. In addition, she found
that the keyboarding program instilled her
students with confidence in using
a micro- computer.
Salt Lake Tribune
December 1983
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Keyboarding Enhances Literacy
Language Arts Keyboarding compliment each other
andcan be taught simultaneously!
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Teacher Responsibilities
You would not sit a child down at a piano and use
a software program toteach piano playing.
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Teacher Responsibilities
Similarly, children are taught to play sports
with a coach and much guided practice. The coach
provides motivation, reinforcement, and
corrective action.
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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
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Progression of Learning
StudentSelf-Guidance
Teacher/StudentGuidance
Complete TeacherGuidance
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Teacher Responsibilities
The teacher is of paramount importance in guiding
that practice!
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It is the responsibility of all teachers to show
that keyboarding skillis relevant in the lives
of all students.
KEYBOARDING A Basic Literacy Skill
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THE END
For additional information on Utahs Elementary
Keyboarding Program, visit www.usoe.k12.ut.us/ate
/keyboarding/key.htm