Lots of Oregon schools, including some in the Portland and David Douglas school districts, plan to introduce formal typing lessons and drag-n-drop practice sessions for 8- and 9-year-olds this year.

Touch typing is a useful skill for children to learn. It is the skill of being able to type without looking down at the keyboard. Some children, when they first begin to type will use the ‘hunt and ...

Public schools in Orange County should make every student learn keyboarding — typing for those of us of a certain age — in middle school, said Bill Sublette, chairman of the Orange County School Board ...

Keyboarding is, perhaps, the most essential of all 21st-century skills. With computers in use across the majority of U.S. schools now, many educators may feel the need to focus on educational software ...

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Meghan is an associate editor with EdTech. She enjoys coffee, cats and science fiction TV. K–12 digital natives might seem like they were born with smartphones in their hands, but educators shouldn’t ...

Interacting with technology is second nature to children these days. But, even though these digital natives are tech-savvy, they might not have the keyboarding and digital citizenship skills to make ...