Change: I teach in a K-4 building. We expect 4th graders to keyboard daily at the beginning of the school year. Fortunately, they have laptops in   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 2761)

Change: If you played baseball 40 minutes a day for 4 weeks, you could develop a foundation of playing skills that you could use for the   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 2761)

Change: teacherteachers and students. You should go there and place your own response. Here’s my point of view on this question: Why should we teach keyboarding? We teach keyboarding to build students’ skills in using   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 2381)

Change: I don't have any statistics but from observation I'd say roughly 50% of students will learn to type very well and continue to use the   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 1851)

Change: I emailed the middle school computer teacher and asked him what he thought about the skills that the incoming students had and what he taught re: touch typing. His response: There is a range of keyboarding skills among students. Some have good basic skills with hand   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 1391)

Change: Comment from a Twitterer: I teach "keyboarding in context." I'm always saying, "Please use two hands." I work in a school for dyslexics in NY. Because word processing will help are students during   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 1115)

Change: shut down. I hope that helps.Anne Marie RowleyWindward School White Plains, NYThanks, Anne. It does help. All ideas, successful or not will help me when I meet with the tech team. The more knowledge I have the more the better off the kids will be!   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 829)

Change: That's why I think that the first four weeks are important and Type to Learn is important. I always was jealous of how fast people   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 488)

Change: minutesatminutes at the beginning of every computer class until the students leave this school at the end of 5th grade.There is an ongoing discussion whether to keep this way of teaching keyboarding alive for another year. Some of the comments and questions are:Do the 4th   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 298)

Change: I am on the fence for the idea to drop it entirely. I don't think I get great results and I have been doing this for 6 years. But, when else would they learn it? If I didn't do it this way, what other way would work even better?I   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 298)