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Re: In this day & age Keyboarding should be taught in Elemen
Posted by Nik on 11/27/07

    I am going to try to teach a few minutes of keyboarding each class
    but....Time really does keep this from happening. I feel that
    middle and high schools should really look at elementary
    differently. There is not enough time in a day to teach
    keyboarding. Until students have laptops in their regular classes
    and their regular teachers add keyboarding in with manuscript and
    cursive it will be near impossible for kids to learn keyboarding
    in elementary.
    On 11/22/07, Jean Bullock wrote:
    > Sharon, I only get my kids once a week for computer too. But I
    have them do the
    > keyboarding anyway and it helps. Usually I spend the first
    semester on keyboarding
    > and then after that I do applications. Grades 6-8 come twice a
    week for 45 minutes.
    >
    > The thing that frustrates me is that they should really treat
    Computer as a semester
    > elective. The kids should come daily. The kids would learn
    more effectively. They
    > should treat Art and Music that way too.
    >
    >
    >
    > On 11/18/07, Sharyl -- one of the problems wrote:
    >> is that in many schools, like ours, students are only in the
    >> lab one time per week. First and second grade are in lab 25
    >> minutes, one time per week. The third are in lab twice per
    >> week, 25 minutes per time. Fourth, fifth, and sixth get
    >> keyboarding one 50 minute period per week.
    >>
    >> With exposure to keyboarding only once per week, students are
    >> don't have opportunity to practice unless they choose to do
    >> this at home.
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >> On 9/30/07, Neal (M) wrote:
    >>> Home row should be taught in first grade, and keyboarding in
    >>> second or third... especialy with all the "writing" primary
    >>> students are encouraged/asked/expected to do.
    IMnsHO the
    >>> earlier the better! If not the self-taught bad habits are much
    >>> harder to break.
    >>>
    >>> N
    >>>
    >>> On 9/30/07, IMO it should be taught by a business ed teacher
    >>> in a middle school wrote:
    >>>> what are your thoughts? What does your school do? Thanks.
    >

     
     

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