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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]First round PARCC tests have highlighted just how wide the gap is.  After another round or two, most of the administration issues will have been sorted out and schools will lose their "we just got the computers and most of our kids can't type" cover. Then what? Facing facts?

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Unrelated to the gap, and unrelated to the topic of gifted education in DC, keyboarding skills will continue to be a challenge until kids have those skills. You can't teach most 8-year-olds to type well enough to type an essay or a sentence on a timed computer test in a few hours per year. Even the brightest little kids will still chicken peck a key board. Now, if they could text their answers just using thumbs, that would be whole other matter.  :wink: [/quote]

Not sure I buy it. If keyboarding skills were a factor, DCIs scores should have been much higher? A school with a 1:1 technology approach and kids keyboard most everything. Shokldnt the disadvantage / advantage cut both ways. [/quote]

No, that's missing the point. What the lack of computer skills does is cause more false negatives, but not all negatives are false -- we just can't really know how many are. [/quote]

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