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Computers have become such a way of life that it is now vital for kids to learn typing skills earlier than ever before. Gone are the days of learning keyboarding in high school. Correct keyboarding is now best learned when kids are in early elementary school.

Yesterday Dad and I stood beside Mom’s grave and I asked him what was his most precious memory from the 64 years that he was married to Mom.  He spoke about her teaching him to read and write after they were married. I love my folk’s stories and I will dearly miss Mom’s blend of humor, incongruity, and sentimental reflection.

This past week was a busy one as we met with all of our elementary school-based trainers and, since we have an overly-large number of elementary schools, that meant four full days. Interacting with all these talented people is the best part and the liveliest discussions this time around centered on the topic of teaching keyboarding.

Kids Courses at Anne Arundel Community College September 17th, 2008 Preschool Kindermusik Creative Movement (Ages 4-5 and Ages 6-7) Elementary Kindergarten Spanish and Kindergarten Spanish 2 Math (Kindergarten) Cooking–Gingerbread House (Grades K-3) Reading for Kindergarteners and Grades

Editorial Reviews Midwest Book Review Use this manual to help expand existing professional skills: thirty chapters organize insights and procedures on administrative duties and high-tech office activities, from using the phone and making travel arrangements to keyboarding skills and deciphering legal documents.

This is a cross post from the TechLearning blog. Keyboarding is an important skill. I reflected a bit on cursive and keyboarding on the TechLearning blog a year ago this month in the post, “The New Cursive.” Perhaps my comparison of cursive writing to keyboarding was not appropriate.

Every day at least one person will ask if a particular data entry job is legit. Every day at least one person will ask to find a data entry position. Data entry jobs are the most desired, most favourable and most sought after position online. You will hear often data entry jobs are rare, few and far between and it’s true.

Thanks to @abubnic for tweeting this to @kjarrett this morning! I learn SO much from eavesdropping……. As a former (and forever now - you can take the teacher from the computer lab, but can’t take keyboarding out of the teacher) keyboarding teacher, I thought this was a nice short video to show perhaps at the beginning of a keyboarding unit.

A little ADHD-fueled early-morning bouncing around the web today led me to http://school.typingpal.com/ (currently used by a local district) and I started thinking … what is the best way for kids to learn keyboarding? At school? At home? Or, not covering it (the discipline) at all? This conversation can’t start without first considering the digital divide.

I’d better start with a confession: I prefer a key board to pen and paper because my handwriting is appalling and I once spent several minutes trying to transcribe my shorthad before realising it was longhand.