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P43: Can interactive programs motivate children to write independently?
Author: Lynn Skinner Hunwick Primary School
Date: 2005

Summary

This is an account of a teacher's observations of a group of boys playing an ICT literacy game in which a train carried a word across the screen and the children were required to type the word after it had left the screen. The boys helped each other by writing the word down on paper whilst the train was still visible on the screen.

Based on these observations, Lynn suggests that some ICT activities can encourage other skills (such as hand writing) but that teacher intervention is still the best way to teach correct letter formation.

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