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The question of when keyboarding should be taught
in schools has been widely debated since the early 1990s and, years later, it is still
being debated |
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"Most research supports starting students on formal keyboarding
around grade 4. All kids do not have the eye-hand motor coordination to learn keyboarding skills earlier than that |
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That isn't to say that nothing can be done with keyboarding before grade 4. It's good for
students to get familiar with the keyboard in the earlier grades |
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We encourage
students to pretend there's a line down the middle of the keyboard and to keep the right hand to the right of
the line and the left hand to the left. We also encourage them to type with more than one finger because they
may tend to use just the index finger. For later instruction, it's good for students to develop the habit of
using more than one finger early on" |
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Other educators can see no reason why early
elementary school students shouldn't start learning "proper" typing in Grade 1 |
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The repetitive random letter typing
of traditional software-based methods surely has to be a factor in
why this debate continues. Possibly, educators believe there is no alternative method |
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