With well-designed, intentional prompts, keyboarding instruction can help students develop several skills at once.

Technology may have become a staple at home and in school, and Grand Forks educators maybe mulling an even earlier start to keyboarding classes, but traditional cursive continues to survive in some ...

With more standardized tests going digital, including most recently the College Board’s Advanced Placement exams, more schools are investing time and resources into keyboarding instruction, ...

Seven students spent a week learning about computers in the Basic Keyboarding and Computer Skills class at New Mexico State University Carlsbad. The class, which was implemented in 2015, allows ...

Public schools in Orange County should make every student learn keyboarding — typing for those of us of a certain age — in middle school, said Bill Sublette, chairman of the Orange County School Board ...

I can still feel the tips of my 10-year-old fingers striking the orange cover on the keyboard. It was in this 5th grade public-school class that – despite my frequent boos and bellyaching – I learned ...

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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 ...

Push-pull, push-pull, push-pull. Around and around and around. My pencil flew over the paper, trying to comply with the teacher’s exhortations. Those were some of the penmanship drills that I ...

When I see kids hunting and pecking, especially by the time they hit secondary school, I cringe. Unfortunately, the keyboarding classes that many of us took as kids are long gone in favor of ...