Fifth- and sixth-grade students from Valley Stream UFSD Thirteen’s] Willow Road Elementary School practiced their typing skills on Dec. 17 using EasyTech, the district’s newly implemented keyboarding and word processing program.
A self-paced digital program, EasyTech makes keyboarding instruction fun with a variety of interactive lessons that work to improve students’ mastery of touch-typing. “The students are learning all of the proper keyboarding techniques,” Willow Road sixth-grade teacher Nancy Sferrazza said, noting the benefits of the EasyTech technology. “They are learning to use the home row, different keys and proper posture. The students can also use this program at home.”
Sferrazza explained that the program automatically adjusts to various levels of difficulty as the students become more proficient with their typing. “It keeps adjusting, and it monitors their accuracy and speed so that they keep getting better and better,” she said. “Not only will this program help when they do research projects in class and to type up papers, but it’s a skill they will use throughout their lives.”
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