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Keyboarding Basics Part 1

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Rogers (2003), including: Improvement in language arts. An overview of research says elementary and middle schoolage students are cognitively, emotionally, and physically capable of learning and excelling at keyboarding skills. Is elementary school too early—or too late? Zeitz, 2008. –Type to Learn, 1986.

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Teaching Python: How Children Can Learn Python Programming

The CoolCatTeacher

Episode 720 with Kelly Schuster-Paredes and Sean Tibor From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Kelly Schuster-Paredes and Sean Tibor host the Teaching Python Podcast where they share how to help kids of all ages learn this valuable language. This is her third year using Python. .”

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5 Ways to Empower Girls

The CoolCatTeacher

Lynn Colón shares insight on empowering girls in schools today From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Lynn Colón, co-author of Empowering Girls: Opening the Door for Girls to Achieve More , helps us understand what schools need to be doing to intentionally empower their female students to achieve more.

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A Stress Free Plan for Closing Out Your Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

A conversation with Angela Watson on episode 78 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. How to have students help without chaos. Want to hear another episode on how to thrive at the end of the school year? Blog: [link]. Full Bio As Submitted.

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Preparing Young Students for Home Row Keyboarding: An Unplugged Approach

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Teachers don’t have time to teach each child how to do this, so, much of keyboard learning is done by self-directed games. Besides, we want our children to communicate with digital effectiveness in elementary school! So, at what age and how should we deliver keyboarding instruction? Dr. William L. Morgan (Ph.D.,

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Research-based Strategies for Teaching Sight Words

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Teaching sight words is the topic of this blog post. Cyclic Analysis: After taking familiar words out of their context and learning how to analyze them graphophonemically, students are encouraged to find similar words in the texts. Graphophonemic awareness: Development in elementary students. So, what exactly are sight words?

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Teacher Development Research Review: Keys to Educator Success

Digital Promise

Schools that foster trust among parents, teachers, and school leaders are more likely to see academic improvement than schools that do little or fail to foster trust ( Bryk and Schneider, 2003 ). Deeper knowledge of content and how to teach it : Training teachers solely in new techniques and behaviors will not work.

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