In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education.
Today’s tip: #46: Easiest Way to Explain Right and Left
Category: Hardware
Sub-category: Classroom Management, Teaching
Q: Kindergartners don’t always understand the difference between left/right.
A: There are two times kids get confused about right and left when I’m teaching:
- right mouse button
- clicking in front of a spot (to edit, to use the tab key, to format–stuff like that)
I’ve found an easy way to clarify: “Right click with your mouse” Student promptly clicks with their left mouse button. “The other right.”
Always works. And, they don’t feel stupid (which they aren’t). They remember it.
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Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.
