As they use the keyboard, students associate a letter with striking a key. Practice and repetition of frequently-used letter combinations are essential for building proficiency at this level. 3) The ...

Learning to type has come a long way from banging out rows of f-f-f and j-j-j. So has the intended audience, which has moved from middle schoolers to include children as young as kindergarten. There's ...

Meghan is an associate editor with EdTech. She enjoys coffee, cats and science fiction TV. K–12 digital natives might seem like they were born with smartphones in their hands, but educators shouldn’t ...

Keyboarding is, perhaps, the most essential of all 21st-century skills. With computers in use across the majority of U.S. schools now, many educators may feel the need to focus on educational software ...

Back-to-school often means more time spent in front of the computer. Elementary schoolers are working on book reports, high-school kids are doing research papers and the college coeds are typing class ...

Researchers explored how manual and keyboard practice influenced children's abilities in their reading and writing learning process. 5-year-olds were taught an artificial alphabet using different ...

The irascible goat in the purple jumpsuit is teaching the class how to keyboard. He tells everyone to put their fingers on the "home row" and exclaims "Let's rock and roll." Ashlyn Cortez, 8, ...

It wasn’t too long ago that schools offered classes with names like “Keyboarding” that were pitched as teaching a skill that would be vital for life and work in the 21st century. As it turns out, all ...

Interacting with technology is second nature to children these days. But, even though these digital natives are tech-savvy, they might not have the keyboarding and digital citizenship skills to make ...