<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thanks to everyone who responded to my question about Sentence Writing and technology. I appreciate your collective thinking. I guess the jury is still out. I think the school and the teachers are going to have to make that decision. I do think that consistency is going to be critical. I guess it is worth time to have dialogue about this.<div class="">Sue<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 27, 2018, at 11:45 AM, Dana McCaleb via Simtrainer-l <<a href="mailto:simtrainer-l@lists.ku.edu" class="">simtrainer-l@lists.ku.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><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 class=""></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 class=""></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 class=""></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="text-align:left" class=""><div style="text-align:left" class=""><div style="text-align:left" class=""><div style="text-align:left" class=""><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif" class=""><font size="2" class="">Dana McCaleb<br class="">Coordinator<br class="">SIM</font><font size="1" class=""> </font><font size="2" class="">Professional Development Leader<br class="">VDOE T/TAC @ Virginia Tech</font></span></div><div style="text-align:left" class=""><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif" class=""><font size="2" class="">250 South Main Street<br class="">Suite 326 (0254)</font></span></div><div style="text-align:left" class=""><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif" class=""><font size="2" class="">Blacksburg, VA 24061<br class=""></font></span><span class=""><div style="text-align:left" class=""><font size="2" class=""><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif" class=""><font color="#888888" class=""><div class=""><b class=""><a href="mailto:whm2378@vt.edu" target="_blank" class="">dmccaleb@vt.edu</a></b> </div></font></span></font></div></span><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif" class=""><font size="2" class="">Work <a value="+15402310827" class="">(540) 231-0812</a></font></span></div><div style="text-align:left" class=""><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif" class=""><font size="2" class="">
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<br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 6:50 PM, Woodruff Susan via Simtrainer-l <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:simtrainer-l@lists.ku.edu" target="_blank" class="">simtrainer-l@lists.ku.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello …<br class="">
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 class="">
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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 class="">
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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 class="">
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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 class="">
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Thanks so much.<br class="">
Sue Woodruff<br class="">
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