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Week Ahead.......January 25-
No School (Snow Day)
January 26-
No School (Snow Day)
January 27-
No School (Snow Day)
January 28-
Day 3 - 2-Hour Delay (schedule)
**Please be sure to submit your report cards to the shared folder by 3:45 pm. Thanks!
Out Of Building-
January 29-
Day 4
Out Of Building-Mellinger (Half Day PM)
Bits & Bytes
I invite all of you to celebrate Digital Learning Day on February 17th.
Click here to learn more.
PLC in Print
(courtesy of the Marshall Memo)
Findings from a recent study show that some fourth graders produced better essays writing by hand than using a computer. But on closer analysis, the biggest barrier to those who were less successful using computers was most students’ extremely slow typing speed – students hunting and pecking as slowly as four words a minute. The average fourth grader was writing 12 words a minute. At these speeds, working memory is overtaxed and the quality of the writing is going to suffer.
The study did find that some high-poverty students produced better essays working by hand. But most U.S. schools are not moving in that direction – and word processing has tremendous advantages for every writer. Steve Graham of Arizona State University has an idea: Every school should devote a chunk of time (probably at middle school) to teaching keyboarding and basic word-processing, perhaps motivating all middle-school students to work toward a specific per-minute typing speed, and giving students constant practice composing and editing on a computer. Getting students proficient with the mundane business of keyboarding and word processing is one of the best ways to liberate the higher-order thinking and creativity of all students.
