SSWSW.Keyboarding Without Tears Webinar_Handout_8.2016

Keyboarding Without Tears® K–5

WEBINAR HANDOUT

Objectives Table of Contents

1. Recognize the importance of teaching Three Stages of Learning.............................1
pre-keyboarding and keyboarding skills, alongside Keyboarding Without Tears®........................2
computer readiness, and digital citizenship. +Live Insights™............................................3
Digital Citizenship......................................4
2. Explore the KWT Teacher’s Guides and teacher-led lessons. Grade Approriate Curriculum.......................5
Review & Plan: Keyboarding Without Tears....6
3. Experience the KWT student lessons using Lesson
Previews and identify the program structure

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Three Stages of Learning 1
1. : Relies on visual feedback
2. : Relies on kinesthetic cues
3. : Relies primarily on kinesthetic feedback

(Perminger, Weiss, Weintraub 2004)

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Keyboarding Without Tears®

Easy to Teach
Grade-level appropriate curriculum
• Developmental teaching based on skills and abilities of each grade.
Developmental teaching order
• Six row-based units to reinforce hand and finger placement.

Easy to Learn
Color-coded rows
• Visual cues to learn home row and movement to top and bottom rows.
Dynamic keyboard and cursor
• Dynamic keyboard breaks the keyboard into small units for locating letters.
• Dynamic cursor provides larger visual prompts in earlier grades.
Unilateral hand and finger skills
• Promotes unilateral finger and hand skills prior to bilateral touch typing.

Rich Content
Theme-based, cross-curricular content
• Variety of content to keep students engaged and excited to learn.
Teacher-Led Lessons
• Designed to teach children safety online, provide exposure to the keyboard in a hands-on way and
assist with teaching visual location of keys and finger placement.

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+Live Insights™ 3
plusliveinsights.com

• Dashboard for Digital Teaching
• Grade Level Teacher’s Guides
• Lesson Previews by grade
• Classroom Management
• View Reports

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Teacher Led Lessons

Teacher-led lessons are located in the grade level specific teacher’s guides. These lessons live outside of the student
license and contain everything you need to prepare children for computer readiness and digital citizenship.

Digital Citizenship DigitCael rCtiiftiiczaetneship Date
• Lessons to keep children safe and responsible This certificate is presented to:
as they navigate online for successfully completing the Digital Citizenship lessons!

Ready, Set, Row Awarded by
• Lessons to learn about the parts of a computer
and to introduce the keyboard We say, ’m umping . L  do Pinkie
All Ships Do Float. K punctuation.
Fingers and Keys
• Activities and songs to help children identify D J ;
the keys and finger-key associations SF

Pinkies shift for capitals. A

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Teaching Keyboarding Developmentally

Foundation Letters Words

Sentences Paragraphs & Fluency

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Review & Plan: Keyboarding Without Tears®

1. Why are the color coded rows beneficial?
A. The rows are visually easier to understand
B. They provide visual cues to move to the top and bottom rows
C. The home row is easy to recognize for placement of hands on the rows
D. All of the above
2. ________________________ is to ensure children are safe and responsible as they produce and present their work,

and navigate online.
3. Pre-Keyboarding is included in each grade level within Keyboarding Without Tears.
A. True
B. False
Take a moment to jot down how you plan to implement KWT into your learning environment.

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