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It's time to stop talking about
when keyboarding should be taught in schools and take action |
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Action is the only way to resolve the issue of when keyboarding should be taught in schools,
but this is not happening. The debate continues, with two opposing views: |
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The hands of young children are too small |
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"The issue with kids is not the typing activity specifically. It's really no
different from them learning the Suzuki method of violin or anything like that where they have repetitive, independent
finger motion. There is no developmental problem with starting kids typing early"
. . Dr. Alton Barron, a hand surgeon at the C. V. Starr Hand Surgery Center in Manhattan |
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"Personal experience tells me that teaching keyboarding at 5 or 6 yrs of age works well.
That's when many piano students start their "keyboarding" so we know that physically they are very capable.
Children I know who have been keyboarding since they were 4 years old are now intermediate elem students and typing at
about 35 to 45 wpm" . . .
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Young children do not have the eye-hand motor coordination to learn keyboarding skills earlier
than around Grade 4 |
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"If you combine keyboarding with letter-recognition and hand-eye coordination activities
in Grades K-3, then you provide a developmentally appropriate skill that helps reinforce classroom learning and develop
fine motor skills. To wait is to deprive the student of a foundational skill" . .
Vic Jaras, technology coordinator for the Battle Creek (Michigan) Schools, told Education World |
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Young children need to learn their own way |
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"Keyboarding should absolutely be introduced early. It is difficult to break
a bad habit. Once the students learn to hunt and peck, they truly believe that there is no other comfortable
way to type" . . .
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