We often tell students that it’s important to improve their typing skills or learn to touch type, but we don’t always tell them why.
And we should, because understanding why touch typing is important will help boost motivation and get kids on board when it comes time to practice.
ASCII Art also has great potential for use in the typing classroom because it challenges students to use symbols and punctuation marks that don’t always get regular use.
Placing value on the importance of typing accuracy will pay off in the long run as your students develop the typing habits and muscle memory to hit the right key every time, and catch themselves if they don’t.
We’re excited to announce the launch of a new typing game that your students are guaranteed to love. In this adrenaline-packed game, students use their typing skills to operate a space warcraft to shoot down incoming enemy ships.
There are countless examples in history where a misplaced comma or additional letter have cost millions of dollars!
At the end of the day, typing is a pretty straightforward task that doesn’t tend to involve audio or movement. That said, there are plenty of ways that you can mix up typing time to help students keep their focus.
Studies show that people are more productive when working in an organized workspace. The same is true for working with an organized computer desktop. In honor of “National Clean Your Virtual Desktop Day” here are our top tips for keeping your virtual desktop clean and organized.
Teachers have reported that when dyslexic students shift to doing more of their writing on the computer, their overall enthusiasm for school and confidence in their abilities soars.
We recommend breaking typing time into 2 slots of 15 minutes each. Use one of these to check students’ use of the program and the other to work on making typing fun!
As teachers, it is our responsibility to make sure that students learn appropriate guidelines for computer use. When it comes to how to protect their vision, our recommendation is the 20-20-10 rule.