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it makes more sense to practice typing by actually typing reports, stories, poems, and so on
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Most K-8 teachers have no vocational certification in teaching keyboarding
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Many teachers think it takes nothing to teach keyboarding,
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"Keyboarding is a motor skill,"
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This research found the drills dealing with key combinations not only to develop these motor skills
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hands on home row keys, to use the proper finger for each letter, to have their wrists flat and their thumbs on the space bar. And they are expected to know where the keys are without looking.
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three words per minute
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don't want to frustrate students by raising the speed beyond what they can manage, forcing them to have to look at the keys in order to be successful."
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Speed is not what is most important.
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Accuracy
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will come automatically by letting up on the speed.
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The true measure of the typist or keyboardist is that he or she no longer thinks, 'I must press my fourth finger on my left hand without moving up or down,' but thinks 's' and the finger responds automatically
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In typing, first you learn where the keys are and how to stroke firmly and rhythmically
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meaning and the motions
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struck the correct keys
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eye-hand coordination process of learning the keys.
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eyboarding cannot be taught in isolation
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06 Feb 18
mander42This 2017 Education World article discusses how keyboarding for kids isn’t just about learning how to type it is about preparing students for their technology rich world they are growing up in. The topic of how young is too young is also discussed - when are children developmentally ready to start learning how to touch type? If they are too young, they will develop bad typing habits like the “hunt and peck.” Keyboarding is not about speed or accuracy. It is all about technique first, and then speed and accuracy. Developing good technique will make accuracy and speed come that much easier. Typing is about muscle memory. The author of this article says, “We don't expect our students to write until we've taught them handwriting; we can't expect them to type if we haven't taught them keyboarding."
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03 Feb 18
Karin LamsonThis 2017 article from Education World reviews how important keyboarding is as a motor skill. Students should learn the proper form (with drill) in third grade; they should be expected to be able to use those skills in fourth and fifth grade. It further states how difficult it is to retrain students with poor technique at the high school level. Research found the drills dealing with key combinations not only to develop these motor skills the best way to learn. There is a reason for those fff fjfjfj jjj drills. Covering the keyboard at upper grades helps as well. This article suggests explaining to students that memory is in the muscles, once their fingers learn the keyboard, the fingers will not forget, just as they will never forget how to ride a bike once they have learned. Tell students to be patient with themselves; they are training their finger muscles to remember the position of the keys.
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valerie taylorSo how young is too young? "In our district, keyboarding skills are taught in the middle school in fifth and sixth grade as part of the computer rotation," where technology facilitator Jenn Marie told Education World. "Formal keyboarding is not taught in the elementary building. Instead, the children use computers and various productivity programs, and in their use of these programs, from first grade on, the hunt-and-peck method is used.
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Many teachers think it takes nothing to teach keyboarding, but they are wrong," said teacher Carla Cruzan. "Can anyone teach a science or math course?"
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Once upon a time (not so very long ago), many high school students took a course called typing. The course was probably taught by a
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mrlloyd025"Cruzan continued: "Explain to students that the memory is in the muscles. Use an example such as riding a bicycle. Tell them that once their fingers learn the keyboard, the fingers will not forget, just as they will never forget how to ride a bike once they have learned. Tell students to be patient with themselves; they are training their finger muscles to remember the position of the keys. This is why it is important to sit up straight, keep their feet flat on the floor and their keyboards at the proper height and adjustment -- so the fingers always approach the keys the same way. It is part of muscle memory -- just as golfers try to develop their swing."
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tfeilbachWhile schools have worked hard to integrate computers into the classrMany schools do not even consider teaching the art/science of using a keyboard.
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Steve PortmanWhile schools have worked hard to integrate computers into the classrMany schools do not even consider teaching the art/science of using a keyboard.
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Glenn HervieuxWhile schools have worked hard to integrate computers into the classrMany schools do not even consider teaching the art/science of using a keyboard. This article in Education World provides important insights into teaching keyboarding.
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01 Mar 16
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Schools can no longer prepare students for the workplace of the future without providing them with skills necessary for using computers competently. One of those necessary skills is, of course, keyboarding.
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There is no longer an ideal time for formal instruction because younger and younger children are imitating older siblings and parents by wanting to work with computers, and more software is being developed just for them
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To me, it makes more sense to practice typing by actually typing reports, stories, poems, and so on,
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Students should learn the proper form (with drill) in third grade; they should be expected to be able to use those skills in fourth and fifth grade."
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The real key to keyboarding is technique, and the theory for this pedagogy is in the realm of teachers certified to teach the subject.
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Keyboarding is an important psychomotor skill that all students need to learn, but that fact is not being recognized
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Keyboarding is a motor skill
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It is a matter of training fingers to respond correctly and quickly to press the correct key -- kind of like in athletics where you keep doing it over and over again until it becomes habit.
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I set a goal of three words per minute for third graders and around seven for fourth and fifth graders
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Speed is not what is most important. Most important is correct technique. With correct keying, speed will come automatically with time and use. Accuracy will come automatically by letting up on the speed. Emphasize correct technique only at these ages
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In typing, first you learn where the keys are and how to stroke firmly and rhythmically,
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Then you learn to combine letters into words. Along the way, you learn certain common patterns
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Ignore all errors at this time -- except for errors in technique. Let your students know that their typing will always contain some errors. What will change, with time, is the type of errors they will make."
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We don't expect our students to write until we've taught them handwriting; we can't expect them to type if we haven't taught them keyboarding
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skye krausekeyboarding article Researched based strategies with keyboarding
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"In first grade," Marie added, "the children may start by typing their name -- letters they know very well and now need to find in the strange land of QWERTY. Children are encouraged to use two hands -- to use the left hand for the letters on the left and the right hand for the letters on the right. The keyboard is really not designed for accurate use of typing skills by young hands, however. By middle school, the children have the pinkie reach needed."
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"I did formal keyboarding instruction in third grade; in fourth and fifth grade, students were expected to have their hands on home row keys with proper form when they typed any of their assignments,
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I did do a four-week review of keyboarding for the fourth graders, but beyond that, instructional time was not used for the skill and drill of learning the QWERTY layout of the keyboard. Instead, children were provided with meaningful activities to complete on the computer. This type of real-life practice and encouragement from teachers to use two hands helps children become competent typists.
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"To me, it makes more sense to practice typing by actually typing reports, stories, poems, and so on,"
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Students should learn the proper form (with drill) in third grade; they should be expected to be able to use those skills in fourth and fifth grade."
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a lot of research had gone into the order of introducing the keys to develop motor skill memory. Most software programs and elementary teachers ignore this research and introduce the keys in a manner that allows them to spell words or play games. I cringe during these discussions but keep my mouth shut and my keyboard keys still."
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"Most K-8 teachers have no vocational certification in teaching keyboarding," agreed Carla Cruzan, "and students need feedback. The software responds to the key pushed. It doesn't know which finger the student used to push it.
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Keyboarding is an important psychomotor skill that all students need to learn, but that fact is not being recognized. You have no idea how hard it is to untrain students coming to us at the high school level with poor technique.
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As a result, many students will never be good at composing straight to the computer because they can't take their eyes off the keyboard and keep them on the monitor or text!
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It is a matter of training fingers to respond correctly and quickly to press the correct key -- kind of like in athletics where you keep doing it over and over again until it becomes habit.
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"Keyboarding is a motor skill,"
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"This research found the drills dealing with key combinations not only to develop these motor skills the quickest way but also to develop those skills so they won't be lost. There is a reason for those fff fjf jfj jjj drills."
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"My emphasis is on proper form not speed,"
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My students are expected to have their hands on home row keys, to use the proper finger for each letter, to have their wrists flat and their thumbs on the space bar. And they are expected to know where the keys are without looking.
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"I set a goal of three words per minute for third graders and around seven for fourth and fifth graders," said Patterson. "I lower it or raise it depending on the success of the individual student.
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I don't want to frustrate students by raising the speed beyond what they can manage, forcing them to have to look at the keys in order to be successful."
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"My emphasis is not on speed,
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"Speed is not what is most important. Most important is correct technique. With correct keying, speed will come automatically with time and use. Accuracy will come automatically by letting up on the speed. Emphasize correct technique only at these ages."
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"When we begin to study a physical skill, we must concentrate upon it," Lauren Eve Pomerantz, programs coordinator at the California Space & Science Center, told Education World. "Then the information is stored in the neocortex, the center of our conscious thought. As we perfect our skill through physical drill, whether it be piano scales or ballet barre exercises or DeNealian drill sheets or karate katas, the information is moved into deeper areas of the brain that bypass conscious thought.
"The true measure of the typist or keyboardist is that he or she no longer thinks, 'I must press my fourth finger on my left hand without moving up or down,' but thinks 's' and the finger responds automatically," Pomerantz added.
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"In typing, first you learn where the keys are and how to stroke firmly and rhythmically," Pomerantz continued. "Then you learn to combine letters into words. Along the way, you learn certain common patterns. Not very long after beginning, when kids are still thinking about the letters that make up each word, they can type such words as the and and because drills make them repeat those commonly used sequences.
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"Initially, students get much of the psychomotor feedback they need --feedback that they have struck the correct keys -- as they watch their monitors," Carla Cruzan said. "However, in the very beginning stages, they also need to occasionally look back and forth to their keyboards to develop their eye-hand coordination. When students switch to copying text off a printed page -- if it is introduced too early -- they struggle to keep their eyes on the text, and they lose this important feedback. Switching their eyes constantly between text and keyboard, they also lose their place in the text and numerous errors creep in. The same thing happens when they compose straight to the monitor. This frustrates the natural eye-hand coordination process of learning the keys.
"The initial keyboard learning is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for students to look at the keyboard as needed," Cruzan added. "Students need to learn to key at their own pace or the developmental process will be frustrated. Ignore all errors at this time -- except for errors in technique. Let your students know that their typing will always contain some errors. What will change, with time, is the type of errors they will make."
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Explain to students that the memory is in the muscles.
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Tell them that once their fingers learn the keyboard, the fingers will not forget,
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Use an example such as riding a bicycle.
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Tell students to be patient with themselves; they are training their finger muscles to remember the position of the keys. This is why it is important to sit up straight, keep their feet flat on the floor and their keyboards at the proper height and adjustment -- so the fingers always approach the keys the same way. It is part of muscle memory
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The real key to keyboarding is technique, and the theory for this pedagogy is in the realm of teachers certified to teach the subject.
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My emphasis is not on speed
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Schools can no longer prepare students for the workplace of the future without providing them with skills necessary for using computers competently. One of those necessary skills is, of course, keyboarding.
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Children are encouraged to use two hands -- to use the left hand for the letters on the left and the right hand for the letters on the right.
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The keyboard is really not designed for accurate use of typing skills by young hands,
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"We've had a full-time elementary keyboarding teacher in our district for close to 15 years,"
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That expert "made a believer out of me,"
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a lot of research had gone into the order of introducing the keys to develop motor skill memory. Most software programs and elementary teachers ignore this research and introduce the keys in a manner that allows them to spell words or play games.
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Keyboarding is an important psychomotor skill that all students need to learn, but that fact is not being recognized.
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My emphasis is on proper form not speed
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students are expected to have their hands on home row keys, to use the proper finger for each letter, to have their wrists flat and their thumbs on the space bar. And they are expected to know where the keys are without looking. Often I cover the keys so they can't look. I monitor them, watch them closely, and model for them constantly.
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My emphasis is not on speed
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don't want to frustrate students by raising the speed beyond what they can manage, forcing them to have to look at the keys in order to be successful."
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My emphasis is not on speed
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Most important is correct technique.
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With correct keying, speed will come automatically with time and use.
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Accuracy will come automatically by letting up on the speed. Emphasize correct technique only at these ages."
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first you learn where the keys are and how to stroke firmly and rhythmicall
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Then you learn to combine letters into words
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you learn certain common pattern
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in the very beginning stages, they also need to occasionally look back and forth to their keyboards to develop their eye-hand coordination.
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The initial keyboard learning is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for students to look at the keyboard as needed
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Students need to learn to key at their own pace or the developmental process will be frustrated
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Ignore all errors at this time -- except for errors in technique.
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et your students know that their typing will always contain some errors. What will change, with time, is the type of errors they will make."
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Explain to students that the memory is in the muscles. Use an example such as riding a bicycle. Tell them that once their fingers learn the keyboard, the fingers will not forget, just as they will never forget how to ride a bike once they have learned. Tell students to be patient with themselves; they are training their finger muscles to remember the position of the keys. This is why it is important to sit up straight, keep their feet flat on the floor and their keyboards at the proper height and adjustment
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"To avoid carpal tunnel syndrome
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earners must keep their wrists straight -- no breaking at the wrist, either up or down. This is only possible if the keyboard is at an ergonomically correct height. A penny placed on the back of a hand while keying should remain the
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Teach students about what I call 'nubbies'
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Errors occur if hands are not on the home row.
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It is also very important that all the other teachers in the school are supportive of the keyboarding class and insist that the students have their hands on home row keys and use correct form any time they are typing,"
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"Without this support, the keyboarding program is apt to fail. It is especially important in fourth and fifth grade, where the hunt-and-peck method still s
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eems easier to the students because they are not as fast as they'd like to be.
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Keyboarding cannot be taught in isolation. Students need to know they are expected to have their hands on home row keys every time they are typing at the computer, not just in keyboarding class.
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We don't expect our students to write until we've taught them handwriting; we can't expect them to type if we haven't taught them keyboarding."
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Amanda HedrickThis post includes tips for elementary teachers on how to help students be successful with keyboarding skills.
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Emily WatkinsI am so glad I found this website. This website has everything imaginable with technology and why typing should be in schools. Not only is this site about typing in schools, but there are lesson plans that integrate technology into them.
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Times have changed. Schools can no longer prepare students for the workplace of the future without providing them with skills necessary for using computers competently. One of those necessary skills is, of course, keyboarding.
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To me, it makes more sense to practice typing by actually typing reports, stories, poems, and so on," Patterson told Education World. "It's just like drilling math facts. You might teach addition facts in second grade and even drill them into the students each day. But by the time they get to third grade, you are no longer drilling students on addition facts. They are expected to know those facts and use them during math. The same is true for keyboarding. Students should learn the proper form (with drill) in third grade; they should be expected to be able to use those skills in fourth and fifth grade."
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chools can no longer prepare students for the workplace of the future without providing them with skills necessary for using computers competently. One of those necessary skills is, of course, keyboarding.
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Unfortunately, as schools have concentrated on teaching students how to use computers to obtain and produce information, they have paid little attention to teaching them how to type on the keyboard quickly, accurately, and with correct technique. In addition, some unforeseen questions have arisen. If we need to teach keyboarding -- and we do -- when do we teach it and who should teach it?
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There is no longer an ideal time for formal instruction because younger and younger children are imitating older siblings and parents by wanting to work with computers, and more software is being developed just for them
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My concern is that they are not yet developmentally ready for touch typing and will develop bad habits which will be hard to break."
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Formal keyboarding is not taught in the elementary building. Instead, the children use computers and various productivity programs, and in their use of these programs, from first grade on, the hunt-and-peck method is used.
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The real key to keyboarding is technique, and the theory for this pedagogy is in the realm of teachers certified to teach the subject.
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Keyboarding is an important psychomotor skill that all students need to learn, but that fact is not being recognized. You have no idea how hard it is to untrain students coming to us at the high school level with poor technique. As a result, many students will never be good at composing straight to the computer because they can't take their eyes off the keyboard and keep them on the monitor or text! I understand that in some states, vocational certification is changing to K-12. That is a very good thing!"
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emphasis is on proper form not speed,"
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peed is not what is most important. Most important is correct technique. With correct keying, speed will come automatically with time and use. Accuracy will come automatically by letting up on the speed. Emphasize correct technique only at these ages."
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The true measure of the typist or keyboardist is that he or she no longer thinks, 'I must press my fourth finger on my left hand without moving up or down,' but thinks 's' and the finger responds automatically,
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nitially, students get much of the psychomotor feedback they need --feedback that they have struck the correct keys -- as they watch their monitors,
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he memory is in the muscles
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tudents learn initially using subvocalization, so they shouldn't listen to music or talk too much during this time; it will interfere with the subvocalization process, which is important to their learning."
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Keyboarding cannot be taught in isolation. Students need to know they are expected to have their hands on home row keys every time they are typing at the computer, not just in keyboarding class.
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"Many parents, administrators, and teachers can't seem to justify the time it takes to teach keyboarding," Patterson concluded. "They feel that schools shouldn't take the time to teach keyboarding at all -- or they think keyboarding instruction should wait until high school. My response to that is this: We don't expect our students to write until we've taught them handwriting; we can't expect them to type if we haven't taught them keyboarding."
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Times have changed. Schools can no longer prepare students for the workplace of the future without providing them with skills necessary for using computers competently. One of those necessary skills is, of course, keyboarding.
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no longer an ideal time for formal instruction because younger and younger children are imitating older siblings and parents by wanting to work with computers, and more software is being developed just for them," explained Cruzan, a teacher at Southwest High School in Minneapolis.
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QWERTY layout of the keyboard. Instead, children were provided with meaningful activities to complete on the computer.
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"It's just like drilling math facts. You might teach addition facts in second grade and even drill them into the students each day. But by the time they get to third grade, you are no longer drilling students on addition facts.
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formal keyboarding instruction in third grade; in fourth and fifth grade, students were expected to have their hands on home row keys with proper form when they typed any of their assignments
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four-week review of keyboarding for the fourth graders, but beyond that, instructional time was not used for the skill and drill of learning the QWERTY layout of the keyboard. Instead, children were provided with meaningful activities to complete on the computer. This type of real-life practice and encouragement from teachers to use two hands helps children become competent typists.
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makes more sense to practice typing by actually typing reports, stories, poems, and so on," Patterson told Education World. "It's just like drilling math facts. You might teach addition facts in second grade and even drill them into the students each day. But by the time they get to third grade, you are no longer drilling students on addition facts. They are expected to know those facts and use them during math. The same is true for keyboarding. Students should learn the proper form (with drill) in third grade; they should be expected to be able to use those skills in fourth and fifth grade."
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Keyboarding is a motor skill," Nansen noted. "It is a matter of training fingers to respond correctly and quickly to press the correct key
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emphasis is on proper form not speed
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three words per minute for third graders and around seven for fourth and fifth graders,
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emphasis is not on speed
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In typing, first you learn where the keys are and how to stroke firmly and rhythmically
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Then you learn to combine letters into words. Along the way, you learn certain common patterns. Not very long after beginning, when kids are still thinking about the letters that make up each word, they can type such words as the and and because drills make them repeat those commonly used sequences
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if you type words with meaning while learning to type, you are thinking about two things, the meaning and the motions," Pomerantz said. "This interferes with learning
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When students switch to copying text off a printed page -- if it is introduced too early -- they struggle to keep their eyes on the text, and they lose this important feedback
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Students need to learn to key at their own pace or the developmental process will be frustrated. Ignore all errors at this time -- except for errors in technique. Let your students know that their typing will always contain some errors. What will change, with time, is the type of errors they will make
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memory is in the muscles
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To avoid carpal tunnel syndrome," Cruzan said, "learners must keep their wrists straight
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Teach students about what I call 'nubbies'
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very important that all the other teachers in the school are supportive of the keyboarding class and insist that the students have their hands on home row keys and use correct form any time they are typing
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Without this support, the keyboarding program is apt to fail
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Students need to know they are expected to have their hands on home row keys every time they are typing at the computer, not just in keyboarding class.
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We don't expect our students to write until we've taught them handwriting; we can't expect them to type if we haven't taught them keyboarding.
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Emily RaganSuch an informational web page about how teaching keyboarding is way more than just typing. It goes through the technical process of keyboarding and the importance to students.
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Andrea BlackThis article is about teaching students more about the computer the just typing. It talks about when to start teaching children and where to begin when teaching them about typing.
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Suzie Shaefferwhen & how to teach keyboarding
links to aprintable booklet on teaching keyboardingkeyboarding teaching Typing Resources technology skills education article
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There is no longer an ideal time for formal instruction because younger and younger children are imitating older siblings and parents by wanting to work with computers, and more software is being developed just for them
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My concern is that they are not yet developmentally ready for touch typing and will develop bad habits which will be hard to break.
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Students should learn the proper form (with drill) in third grade; they should be expected to be able to use those skills in fourth and fifth grade."
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The software responds to the key pushed. It doesn't know which finger the student used to push it. The real key to keyboarding is technique, and the theory for this pedagogy is in the realm of teachers certified to teach the subject
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"My emphasis is on proper form not speed," agreed Laurie Patterson. "Let me explain what I mean when I say proper form. My students are expected to have their hands on home row keys, to use the proper finger for each letter, to have their wrists flat and their thumbs on the space bar. And they are expected to know where the keys are without looking. Often I cover the keys so they can't look. I monitor them, watch them closely, and model for them constantly.
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three words per minute for third graders and around seven for fourth and fifth graders,
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Emphasize correct technique only at these ages
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Let your students know that their typing will always contain some errors. What will change, with time, is the type of errors they will make."
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memory is in the muscles
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