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

[Kathy Spielman]

Hi Susan,
I work at Westmark School in Encino, California. The students all have a
diagnosed language based learning disability, and we have a 1:1
iPad program. For students who struggle with dysgraphia, we use the
iPads for marking and writing sentences. There is a program called
Notability which is useful for students to draw on and highlight scanned
pdf's. It also allows the user to zoom in on the letters/words. The student
lesson worksheets are quite small for those students who have fine motor
and dysgraphia issues.
I give the students a choice for writing or typing the pretest.
Kathy Spielman

*Kathy Spielman*
Teaching Beyond Limits
818-314-9389
spielmankathy at gmail.com

On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 3:50 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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