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Learning.com is the state adopted digital literacy curriculum designed to help students master the Technology Application TEKS. Students in pre-K- 6th access this student-driven curriculum through Rapid ID.

Learning.com’s Asynchronous Learning Pathway is assigned to all pre-K-6 homeroom classes in Learning.com. Teachers are encouraged to provide students with opportunities throughout the instructional day to engage in lessons that develop their foundational technology skills.

This year, TI² partnered with the Office of School Leadership to ensure students’ keyboarding and digital literacy skills enable them to effectively demonstrate their content knowledge and skills on online assessments. To do this, 3rd-6th grade students should work in the keyboarding curriculum between 10-15 minutes at least two-three times per week. This frequency is necessary to increase students’ muscle memory and to positively impact both words typed per minute and accuracy.

Teachers and instructional support staff have seen the value of these Learning.com skill building activities:

“My students enjoy Learning.com, especially the keyboarding. Students get super excited to show me their dashboards as they see improvement. I have the kiddos start the day with Learning.com every Tuesday and Thursday as their warm up and then at least one other time during I&E time. Every Tuesday, I allow one student to challenge me to a typing contest. The challenger chooses a sentence and we have another student time us. We record everyone’s times and keep them posted for a month. Students love this and I think it helps keep them motivated to practice as well.”

– Ana Pinson, 3rd Grade Ditto Elementary

 

“Learning.com has helped to get our students excited about keyboarding. I’m seeing students challenge each other to improve their speed and accuracy. When I visit their classrooms for I&E time, students can’t wait to show me theirprogress! Our teachers use Learning.com as one of the students’ daily learning stations. Learning.com has also proven to be a fun “indoor recess” activity this time of year when having outdoor recess isn’t always possible.”

– Tracey Smith, Student Support Interventionist, Speer Elementary

 

 

“My campus has had great buy-in and usage of Learning. com. We have 100% of students actively engaged and learning! Our students enjoy the program and ask to use it when they complete their work. In some classes you might see Learning.com as a station or morning activity. fifth grade students enjoy the keyboarding contest and try to type faster and have higher accuracy than the other classes. The 3rd grade teachers are super excited to see that 2nd graders now have Chromebooks because this will help the students be more successful in 3rd grade on STAAR with open-ended responses. I want my campus to know how proud I am that everyone is supporting our students in completing their CIPA compliance and helping prepare them for their technology skills and STAAR Online!”

-Jena Shankle, 5th Grade Berry Elementary

 

“With TELPAS Writing going online and STAAR redesign, we know that Learning. com is a high priority for our students. Through Friday announcements, we have established a “Drop Everything and Keyboard” time where we share our current ranking and scores for WPM, accuracy, and usage. We use our school announcements to share how the results immediately bumped up our ranking and scores. That excites both teachers and students! We also emphasize the importance of accuracy over speed, so thatstudents are motivated to focus on keyboarding correctly. Ms. Moseley – our campus’ Learning.com Ambassador – includes screenshots of our campus graphs and ranking in our weekly staff newsletter and at our staff meetings.

Whenever I visit classrooms, students are eager to show how their keyboarding has improved this year. Teachers are also excited to share how their classes are working to win the Learning.com Keyboarding contest and take pride in showcasing how students’ constructed responses have progressed throughout this school year.”

– Ayesha Ramos, M.Ed., Principal Eddy and Debbie Peach Elementary