If you're still a member of the hunt-and-peck club, you can save time and increase your productivity by developing solid keyboard skills. In his "Tip o' the Week" blog, Ewan Dalton, who leads the ...

It wasn’t too long ago that schools offered classes with names like “Keyboarding” that were pitched as teaching a skill that would be vital for life and work in the 21st century. As it turns out, all ...

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 ...

Typing on a touch screen is a very different experience. My dad, who types with remarkable sluggishness on a keyboard, can easily boost his typing skills by switching to his iPad. Because the ...

Webapp TypeSpeed makes it easy to learn and improve upon your typing skills with a series of touch-typing exercises and tests. The free site (an email address is required for registration) stores your ...

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 ...

When your humble narrator was just a boy, he went to Catholic school for fourth through seventh grades. He was bullied by students, abused by teachers (both clergy and lay) and was quite miserable. So ...

The question of speedy typing skills among developers seems to be a sticking point for some. On the one hand I heard from a .NET developer pal of mine who types relatively slowly and tells me that ...

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 ...

Two completely different things, but I'm wondering if being able to skillfully type/keyboard at over 70wpm and 95% accuracy shows an ability to play piano or guitar well.<BR><BR>The mechanics aren't ...