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To
Keyboard or Not
to Keyboard
By Ivan W. Baugh
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Wouldn’t it be great if we could
talk to
our computers? Until we can, we'll need to type, which is
why children
should be taught keyboarding from their first encounter
with a computer.
In this article, Ivan Baugh discusses ways to teach
keyboarding
and how combining this instruction with subject matter can
help
students view the computer as a tool rather than as
another subject.
Web Resources
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Goodwin, L. M. (1999). Combine keyboarding skills with Florida
Writes! [Online document]. Hollywood: Florida Association for Computers
in Education. Available: www.facenet.org/May99/keyboard.htm
Herzog
Research www.herzogkeyboarding.com
Miastkowski,
S. (1999). Can we talk? PC World, 71(1),
129–136. Available:
www.pcworld.com/current_issue/article/0,1212,8725,00.html
Nichols, L. M. (1995). A comparison of two methods for teaching keyboarding
in the elementary school. Computers in the Schools, 11(4), 15–25.
Available: www.epicent.com/journals/computer/504nichols.html
Sunburst Communications (www.sunburst. com)
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Ivan W. Baugh (iwbaugh@mindspring.com)
serves as adjunct professor of education at
Bellarmine College,
in Louisville, Kentucky. He teaches undergraduate
and graduate
technology in education classes and collaborates
with his
colleagues to encourage technology integration.
Contact him
at 9910 Shelbyville Road, Louisville, KY 40223-2908,
502.245.9816;
fax 502.253.9013.
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