<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi Sue!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">We have heard this debate many times, and lack of keyboarding skills is a valid concern. Since it is not a timed test, I think the students should be allowed to choose which method for written expression works best for them. I think it comes down to personal preference. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Just my thoughts.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Dana<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left"><div style="text-align:left"><div style="text-align:left"><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font size="2">Dana McCaleb<br>Coordinator<br>SIM</font><font size="1"> </font><font size="2">Professional Development Leader<br>VDOE T/TAC @ Virginia Tech</font></span></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font size="2">250 South Main Street<br>Suite 326 (0254)</font></span></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font size="2">Blacksburg, VA 24061<br></font></span><span><div style="text-align:left"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font color="#888888"><div><b><a href="mailto:whm2378@vt.edu" target="_blank">dmccaleb@vt.edu</a></b> </div></font></span></font></div></span><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font size="2">Work <a value="+15402310827">(540) 231-0812</a></font></span></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font size="2">
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 6:50 PM, Woodruff Susan via Simtrainer-l <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simtrainer-l@lists.ku.edu" target="_blank">simtrainer-l@lists.ku.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello …<br>
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.<br>
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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. <br>
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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? <br>
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Please share your thoughts with me. We have to be prepared to talk with the teachers about this in August.<br>
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Thanks so much.<br>
Sue Woodruff<br>
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