[Simtrainer-l] 1:1 Schools & the Sentence Writing Pretest

[Lisa Skifton]

Hi Sue,
My district is 1:1; however, the special education teachers who teach the
sentence writing strategies still have the students do everything on paper.
The teachers, students, and administration don't mind that these strategies
are done with paper and pencil. Hopefully the district with whom you are
working will be open to this exception.
Good luck!

On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 5:50 PM, Woodruff Susan via Simtrainer-l <
simtrainer-l at lists.ku.edu> wrote:

> Hello …
> I am working with a district that is going 1:1 this fall.  They also have
> a major district goal focusing on writing.  We’ve made the decision to
> start with Sentence Writing.
>
> SO … my question is … should the kids do their writing pretest in their
> own handwriting or should they let the students use their technology?  I
> know there is a lot of debate about the thinking processes being different
> when handwriting versus keyboarding.
>
> Have any of you struggled with this decision?  I can see teachers wanting
> to put kids on computers, but how would we know the difference between real
> sentence writing issues or keyboarding issues?
>
> Please share your thoughts with me.  We have to be prepared to talk with
> the teachers about this in August.
>
> Thanks so much.
> Sue Woodruff
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