Children must learn touch typing — the ability to compose text without looking at keys — so they can focus on their writing, said Kathleen Regan, the director of curriculum and instruction at ...

Learning to type has come a long way from banging out rows of f-f-f and j-j-j. So has the intended audience, which has moved from middle schoolers to include children as young as kindergarten.

Discover some top tips to help you teach touch typing and encourage students to put their touch typing skills to the test ...

Of the major shifts taking place in American classrooms as a result of the new national Common Core academic standards, one little-noticed but sweeping change is the fact that children as early as ...

This QWERTY keyboard comes with a typing tutor, which helps you become a touch typist through muscle memory, although the rainbow keyboard’s intuitiveness makes this software unnecessary.

Online exams and cognitive benefits of proper keyboarding are driving typing instruction Generally speaking, there are two main ways to type using a standard QWERTY keyboard.

Typing on small screens can still be challenging, but today's keyboard apps still focus on text entry over speech, despite the advances in voice-based ...

Andrea Piacquadio/Pexels Handwriting may be better for learning and memory compared to typing on a keyboard, according to a new study involving university students.

While schools may be teaching touch typing because of the Common Core tests, the ability to use a keyboard is an important life skill, said Cathy Turner, a technology teacher at an elementary ...

Children must learn touch typing — the ability to compose text without looking at keys — so they can focus on their writing, said Kathleen Regan, the director of curriculum and instruction at ...

Second-grade teacher Kimberly Blackert helps Cody Simpson with his touch typing assignment Friday at Horseshoe Trails Elementary School in Phoenix, Ariz. Formal keyboarding instruction at the ...