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Most K-12 schools are providing keyboarding for students, but why is this skill so important? In the following article, we discuss the importance of keyboarding and how it supports students not only in education, but also in future careers.

Importance of Keyboarding for Students

There are many benefits to providing keyboarding lessons for students. Not only does it help to provide crucial technical skills, but also helps to support better learning and career opportunities in the future.

While keyboarding used to be considered an “office” skill, its scope has recently expanded far beyond that. Keyboarding is regularly used in school lessons and projects, as well as in most modern careers. By helping students to master these skills, we help them to be more effective, productive, and confident when they are faced with a task requiring keyboarding.

1. Technical Skills

One of the most important reasons for teaching keyboarding to students is to provide technical skills. Keyboarding has become a necessary skill for education and most careers. It has even become an integral part of social relationships, helping to support email, social media, and other forms of communication. By teaching students keyboarding, we are ensuring that they can effectively and efficiently perform tasks that require keyboarding. 

2. Helps to Free Up Cognitive Energy

Another important reason for keyboarding for students is to help free up cognitive energy during typing-related tasks. As students are keyboarding in everyday life, such as while typing a book report or later as part of their job function, typing without keyboarding skills can be a slow and arduous process, requiring them to find each letter on the keyboard one at a time. By helping students master keyboarding skills early, they are able to focus less energy on finding the keys during these tasks, freeing them up to concentrate more effectively on what they are trying to communicate.

3. Improves Computer-Based Test Scores in Students

As more assessments and assignments for students take place in a digital setting, it’s more important than ever that students are comfortable and confident using digital tools. Early and consistent exposure to keyboarding tools and practice has a notable impact on students’ performance and test scores in computer-based assessments. Studies, including a  2015 paper regarding the performance of fourth-grade students in the 2012 NAEP computer-based writing pilot, have found that prior education and practice in keyboarding and computer skills improved factors impacting test scores. These factors included text length; use of editing tools, including spellcheck, automated spelling corrections, and the backspace key; and use of thesaurus and formatting tools.

4. Eases Frustration

Students without keyboarding skills who are required to type for a project can quickly become frustrated and disengaged. They may detach from the project or may even refuse to complete it at all. As educators, we know how important it is that a technical skill such as keyboarding doesn’t act as a barrier for entry in learning or completing an assignment. Teaching students keyboarding skills helps to eliminate this hurdle, allowing them to more effectively focus on what they are learning.

5. Increases Confidence

Students who lack keyboarding skills can feel less confident in their schoolwork and education. For assignments that require typing, students may not be able to express their thoughts or ideas as easily as students who have mastered typing skills–or may choose not to engage for fear of embarrassment or frustration. This can lead to lower confidence in learning and may diminish the student’s desire to attain higher education or to seek higher-paying careers that may require typing skills.

6. Supports Digital Equity

There are some students who would not otherwise have the opportunity to master keyboarding skills outside of school. This makes it important to provide the opportunity to learn keyboarding skills in K-12 programs. Making keyboarding a part of elementary curriculum helps to support digital equity, offering students, regardless of socioeconomic status, the ability to master this important skill. This helps not only to provide more equal opportunities in the classroom, but also to open up more equal job opportunities in the future.

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Helping students master keyboarding in elementary schools will help them not only with education programs and projects, but also to open more opportunities to them in the future. For more information about Learning.com’s K-12 keyboarding curriculum, click the button below.

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A keyboard is one of the primary input devices used with a computer. Like an electric typewriter , a keyboard is composed of buttons to create letters , numbers , and symbols , and perform additional functions. The following sections provide more in-depth information and answers to frequently asked questions about the keyboard.

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The following image shows a 104-key Saitek keyboard with arrows pointing to each section, including the control keys , function keys , LED indicators , wrist pad , arrow keys , and keypad .

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What are the keyboard rows?

The horizontal rows of character keys in the typing area have specific names. For example, when placing your hands on the keyboard, they should be positioned over the home row keys . The keys below the home row are called the bottom row keys , and above the home row keys are the top row keys .

Below is a close-up image of a QWERTY computer keyboard with each of the keys selectable. You may hover your mouse cursor over any keys to see a description. Clicking any of the keys opens a new page with full details.

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See our QWERTY definition for why the keyboard keys are positioned the way they are.

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Today, most computer keyboards connect to the computer using USB or Bluetooth for wireless communication. Before USB, a computer used PS/2 , serial port , or AT (advanced technology) (Din5) as a keyboard interface.

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Today, most keyboards are similar but may be missing one or more of the sections mentioned earlier (e.g., the keypad ). Where keyboards begin to differ the most is in their construction and design. Some keyboards are mechanical , while others use membrane keys. Some keyboards utilize a standard design, like the Saitek keyboard pictured above, and others are split down the middle, utilizing an ergonomic design. Some keyboards are rigid and always the same shape, while others are flexible and can fold in half or roll up.

Most keyboards use the QWERTY layout, but there are still designs that utilize the Dvorak layout.

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A computer keyboard has many more functions than typing. Below are additional tasks you can perform using a keyboard.

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The keyboards used with Apple desktop computers have a nearly identical layout to those used with Windows computers. However, they have a few different keys on both sides of the keyboard's characters section near the bottom: Command and Option .

Command, Option, and Control keys on an Apple keyboard.

A laptop keyboard is arranged differently than a desktop keyboard to accommodate the laptop's narrower footprint. Most laptop keyboards are made smaller by placing the keys closer and including an Fn key . The Fn key is used to give other keys more than one function. For example, pressing the Fn key and the up or down arrow on the keyboard may increase or decrease screen brightness (shown below). Also, many laptop keyboards generally omit the numeric keypad to save space.

Laptop Fn function keyboard key

Today's smartphones and tablets do not have a physical keyboard, although one may be purchased as an optional peripheral add-on. These devices utilize a thumb keyboard or on-screen keyboard to type messages and enter text into various fields. The image is an example of the Apple iPhone on-screen keyboard, used on all Apple touch-based devices.

A computer keyboard is considered an input device because it only sends data to a computer and does not receive any information from it. As you type on the keyboard, you input information into the computer.

Many users are surprised to learn that a keyboard is considered a peripheral and that a computer can function without one. If you have a USB keyboard, you can disconnect it now, and you see that the computer continues to work without it. Many servers , like the Computer Hope web server , run their entire life without a keyboard and are administered by a remotely-connected user.

Multimedia keys are those keys that allow the user to control music on their computer keyboard. These keys add functionality, such as play , pause , stop , rewind , fast forward , skip track , eject , shuffle , and repeat for music. For further information on these keys, see our special key page.

On a typical U.S. PC keyboard, three keys appear twice. They are the Alt keys , Ctrl keys , and Shift keys . Almost all the keys on the numeric keypad are duplicated. These keys include the divide (/), times (*), subtract (-), plus (+), period (.), numbers 0 through 9, and the Enter key . The only key on the numeric keypad that does not appear twice is the Num lock key .

The three keys that appear twice on Apple keyboards are the Command keys , Control keys , and Shift keys . For Apple keyboards with a numeric keypad, there are seventeen duplicate keys. These keys include the equal (=), divide (/), times (*), subtract (-), plus (+), period (.), numbers 0 through 9, and the Enter key.

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Handwriting vs typing: is the pen still mightier than the keyboard?

I n the past few days you may well have scribbled out a shopping list on the back of an envelope or stuck a Post-it on your desk. Perhaps you added a comment to your child’s report book or made a few quick notes during a meeting. But when did you last draft a long text by hand? How long ago did you write your last “proper” letter, using a pen and a sheet of writing paper? Are you among the increasing number of people, at work, who are switching completely from writing to typing?

No one can say precisely how much handwriting has declined, but in June a British survey of 2,000 people gave some idea of the extent of the damage. According to the study, commissioned by Docmail , a printing and mailing company, one in three respondents had not written anything by hand in the previous six months. On average they had not put pen to paper in the previous 41 days. People undoubtedly write more than they suppose, but one thing is certain: with information technology we can write so fast that handwritten copy is fast disappearing in the workplace.

In the United States they have already made allowance for this state of affairs. Given that email and texting have replaced snail mail, and that students take notes on their laptops, “cursive” writing – in which the pen is not raised between each character – has been dropped from the Common Core Curriculum Standards, shared by all states. Since 2013 American children have been required to learn how to use a keyboard and write in print. But they will no longer need to worry about the up and down strokes involved in “joined-up” writing, less still the ornamental loops on capitals.

This reform prompted lively controversy. In an editorial published on 4 September 2013, the Los Angeles Times hailed a step forward. “States and schools shouldn’t cling to cursive based on the romantic idea that it’s a tradition, an art form or a basic skill whose disappearance would be a cultural tragedy. Of course, everyone needs to be able to write without computers, but longhand printing generally works fine […] Print is clearer and easier to read than script. For many, it’s easier to write and just about as fast.”

Some states, such as Indiana, have decided to go on teaching cursive writing in school. Without this skill, they assert, young Americans will no longer be able to read birthday cards from their grandparents, comments by teachers on their assignments or the original, handwritten text of the constitution and the Declaration of Independence. “I have to tell you, I can’t remember the last time I read the constitution,” countered Steve Graham, a professor of education at Arizona State University.

This minor revolution is causing quite a stir but it is by no means the first of its kind. Ever since writing was most likely first invented, in Mesopotamia in about 4000BC, it has been through plenty of technological upheavals. The tools and media used for writing have changed many times: from Sumerian tablets to the Phoenician alphabet of the first millennium BC; from the invention of paper in China about 1,000 years later to the first codex, with its handwritten sheets bound together to make a book; from the invention of printing in the 15th century to the appearance of ballpoint pens in the 1940s.

So at first sight the battle between keyboards and pens might seem to be no more than the latest twist in a very long story, yet another new tool that we will end up getting used to. What really matters is not how we produce a text but its quality, we are often told. When we are reading, few of us wonder whether a text was written by hand or word-processed.

But experts on writing do not agree: pens and keyboards bring into play very different cognitive processes. “Handwriting is a complex task which requires various skills – feeling the pen and paper, moving the writing implement, and directing movement by thought,” says Edouard Gentaz, professor of developmental psychology at the University of Geneva. “Children take several years to master this precise motor exercise: you need to hold the scripting tool firmly while moving it in such a way as to leave a different mark for each letter.”

Operating a keyboard is not the same at all: all you have to do is press the right key. It is easy enough for children to learn very fast, but above all the movement is exactly the same whatever the letter. “It’s a big change,” says Roland Jouvent, head of adult psychiatry at Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris. “Handwriting is the result of a singular movement of the body, typing is not.”

Furthermore pens and keyboards use very different media. “Word-processing is a normative, standardised tool,” says Claire Bustarret, a specialist on codex manuscripts at the Maurice Halbwachs research centre in Paris. “Obviously you can change the page layout and switch fonts, but you cannot invent a form not foreseen by the software. Paper allows much greater graphic freedom: you can write on either side, keep to set margins or not, superimpose lines or distort them. There is nothing to make you follow a set pattern. It has three dimensions too, so it can be folded, cut out, stapled or glued.”

An electronic text does not leave the same mark as its handwritten counterpart either. “When you draft a text on the screen, you can change it as much as you like but there is no record of your editing,” Bustarret adds. “The software does keep track of the changes somewhere, but users cannot access them. With a pen and paper, it’s all there. Words crossed out or corrected, bits scribbled in the margin and later additions are there for good, leaving a visual and tactile record of your work and its creative stages.”

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But does all this really change our relation to reading and writing? The advocates of digital documents are convinced it makes no difference. “What we want from writing – and what the Sumerians wanted – is cognitive automaticity, the ability to think as fast as possible, freed as much as can be from the strictures of whichever technology we must use to record our thoughts,” Anne Trubek, associate professor of rhetoric and composition at Oberlin College in Ohio, wrote some years ago. “This is what typing does for millions. It allows us to go faster, not because we want everything faster in our hyped-up age, but for the opposite reason: we want more time to think.”

Some neuroscientists are not so sure. They think that giving up handwriting will affect how future generations learn to read. “Drawing each letter by hand substantially improves subsequent recognition,” Gentaz explains.

Marieke Longchamp and Jean-Luc Velay, two researchers at the cognitive neuroscience laboratory at Aix-Marseille University, have carried out a study of 76 children, aged three to five. The group that learned to write letters by hand were better at recognising them than the group that learned to type them on a computer. They repeated the experiment on adults, teaching them Bengali or Tamil characters. The results were much the same as with the children.

Drawing each letter by hand improves our grasp of the alphabet because we really have a “body memory”, Gentaz adds. “Some people have difficulty reading again after a stroke. To help them remember the alphabet again, we ask them to trace the letters with their finger. Often it works, the gesture restoring the memory.”

Although learning to write by hand does seem to play an important part in reading, no one can say whether the tool alters the quality of the text itself. Do we express ourselves more freely and clearly with a pen than with a keyboard? Does it make any difference to the way the brain works? Some studies suggest this may indeed be the case. In a paper published in April in the journal Psychological Science , two US researchers, Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer, claim that note-taking with a pen, rather than a laptop, gives students a better grasp of the subject.

The study focused on more than 300 students at Princeton and the University of California, Los Angeles. It suggested that students who took longhand notes were better able to answer questions on the lecture than those using a laptop. For the scientists, the reason is clear: those working on paper rephrased information as they took notes, which required them to carry out a preliminary process of summarising and comprehension; in contrast, those working on a keyboard tended to take a lot of notes, sometimes even making a literal transcript, but avoided what is known as “desirable difficulty”.

On the basic issue of handwriting France has chosen to take the opposite course from the US. In the early 2000s the ministry of education instructed schools to start teaching cursive writing when pupils entered primary school [aged six]. “For a long time we attached little importance to handwriting, which was seen as a fairly routine exercise,” says school inspector Viviane Bouysse. “But in 2000, drawing on work in the neurosciences, we realised that this learning process was a key step in cognitive development.”

“With joined-up writing children learn words as blocks of letters, which helps with spelling,” Bouysse explains. “It’s important in a country where spelling is so complex! However, the ornamental capitals in the patterns published in the 2013 exercise books have been simplified, with fewer loops and scrolls […] They are important, though, because they distinguish proper names or the start of a sentence.”

Some handwriting advocates regret the disappearance of these ornamental effects. “It’s not just a question of writing a letter: it also involves drawing, acquiring a sense of harmony and balance, with rounded forms,” Jouvent asserts. “There is an element of dancing when we write, a melody in the message, which adds emotion to the text. After all that’s why emoticons were invented, to restore a little emotion to text messages.”

Writing has always been seen as expressing our personality. In his books the historian Philippe Artières explained how doctors and detectives, in the late 19th and early 20th century, found signs of deviance among lunatics and delinquents, simply by examining the way they formed their letters. “With handwriting we come closer to the intimacy of the author,” Jouvent explains. “That’s why we are more powerfully moved by the manuscript of a poem by Verlaine than by the same work simply printed in a book. Each person’s hand is different: the gesture is charged with emotion, lending it a special charm.”

Which no doubt explains the narcissistic relationship we often entertain with our own scrawl.

Despite omnipresent IT, Gentaz believes handwriting will persist. “Touchscreens and styluses are taking us back to handwriting. Our love affair with keyboards may not last,” he says.

“It still plays an important part in everyday life,” Bustarret adds. “We write by hand more often than we think, if only to fill in forms or make a label for a jam jar. Writing is still very much alive in our surroundings – in advertising, signing, graffiti and street demonstrations.” Certainly the graphic arts and calligraphy are thriving.

Perhaps, in their way, they compensate for our soulless keyboards.

This article appeared in Guardian Weekly, which incorporates material from Le Monde

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In today’s digital world, typing has become an essential skill in almost every aspect of life. Whether it’s for school assignments, work-related tasks, or personal communication, being able to type quickly and accurately is a necessity. One way to improve your typing skills is to learn how to touch type. Touch typing is a common method of typing where you use all ten of your fingers to type without looking at the keyboard; in contrast to the less advanced hunt-and-peck method of finding and tapping each key with your index fingers. Below are six benefits you may experience by upgrading your typing skills from hunt-and-peck to fluid touch typing.

Increase in Typing Speed

The most obvious benefit of learning how to touch type is that it can significantly increase your typing speed. Studies have shown that individuals who type using the hunt-and-peck method can only type at an average speed of up to 37 words per minute (WPM). In contrast, touch typists can type at an average speed of 50 to 70 WPM, with some people typing as fast as 120 WPM. With practice, learning to touch type will improve your typing speed, allowing you to complete your typing tasks faster than before.

Reduction in Typing Errors

Typing errors can be frustrating and time-consuming to correct. Learning proper typing can significantly reduce the number of errors you make, allowing you to focus on the content you are typing rather than the keyboard or correcting mistakes. Touch typing relies on muscle memory, and after enough practice, your fingers will eventually know what keys to press without you having to consciously think about it.

Improved Keyboarding Posture

Typing for extended periods of time, such as during work hours, can cause strain and fatigue in your hands, wrists, and arms. Proper keyboarding ergonomics reduce strain on your wrists and hands, but more importantly, because you are looking at the screen rather than the keyboard, you also greatly reduce strain on your neck.

Increased Productivity

Touch typing can help you become more productive at work or in your studies. By typing faster and with fewer errors, you can typically complete tasks more quickly and accurately. This increased efficiency can help you meet deadlines, complete homework faster, and ultimately achieve more in less time.

Improved Accessibility

For individuals with disabilities, touch typing can be an invaluable skill to learn. Those with vision impairments, for example, may find it difficult to constantly look between the keyboard and screen while typing. Students with dysgraphia or dyslexia can benefit from learning to type early on because it allows them to express their thoughts without the struggles of physical handwriting.

Greater Career Opportunities

In today’s digital world, typing is an essential skill that many employers require from potential candidates. Whether you’re working as a receptionist or a programmer, knowing how to touch type can make you a more competitive job applicant and increase your chances of getting hired over someone with poor or slow typing skills.

As you can see, learning to touch type can provide numerous benefits over the course of your education and career. If you spend a lot of time typing, whether for school, work or just personally, investing the time it takes to learn touch typing will return great dividends in the long run. With consistent practice and patience, you can develop your keyboarding skills within two to three months and be well on your way to becoming an expert typist.

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Why is keyboarding important

There are many reasons why keyboarding is preferred over the “Hunt-and-peck” method of using a computer. Touch typing enhances accuracy as you harness muscle memory in the fingers to assist with spelling. So what do we mean by muscle memory?

Once you have mastered the fingering on the keyboard, and consistently use the same finger for a letter, you automatically remember where the finger goes without conscious thought.

If you ask someone who’s been typing for years, “Where is the letter b?” or any other letter of your choice, they may have difficulty remembering because this is a skill they have internalized so well. The conscious brain will be slower at answering the question than the finger.

Through sufficient repetition, the fingers reach automatically for individual keys when they are needed. You don’t have to consciously think about where the fingers go.

Touch typing makes you faster. This, in turn, means you will be more productive, as it takes you less time to do tasks so you can take on more work or assignments, or alternatively spend less time sitting at a computer. Automatizing the process improves the quality of your writing too. It frees up cognitive energy so you focus on the ideas instead of just the language required to articulate them.

Moreover, learning keyboarding improves accuracy and can help with decoding and sight-reading skills for children and adults who struggle with specific learning difficulties. Learn more about the benefits .

Keyboarding at school

While tablets have become important tools in education today, typing on the computer is still a crucial skill for students to learn. Keyboarding means the muscles in the hand are involved in typing; the student feels his or her way through the activity instead of using the eyes as a guide.

Children will often benefit from studying keyboarding alongside learning how to read . That’s because in a multi-sensory course, such as Touch-type Read and Spell, the learning process reinforces phonics. Students hear a word spoken, see the word on the screen and then type it.

This helps them with the sound-letter mapping required for decoding and spelling. It also reinforces sight-reading skills through repetitive drills of high frequency vocabulary.

Keyboarding is important for people with learning difficulties

In later grades, school assignments become longer and it is often a requirement that written work is typed. Writing on the computer can actually improve a student’s skills because the process becomes more fluent as ideas flow freely through the fingertips and onto the screen.

Mistakes are easier to correct and re-write and working in drafts is more convenient. University students and researchers will benefit from taking electronic notes in class. Even adults who are returning to school can use touch typing to help develop spelling, literacy and computer skills. Last but not least, homework assignments , group work and sitting standardized exams are all facilitated.

In fact, computer testing is one reason why keyboarding should be considered an essential skill for all students to learn at school. The faster a student can type, the more time they can devote to improving the quality of their response and answering the rest of the exam’s questions.

Nonetheless, not all institutions offer it as a course. Learn more about why and how a school might introduce keyboarding .

Learning difficulties

Individuals with dyspraxia , dysgraphia and other specific learning difficulties often struggle when it comes to writing by hand. Learning how to type can help these students achieve their full potential at school by reinforcing literacy skills.

It will also benefit people with visual impairments and other special needs too, including individuals with autism spectrum disorder and Down syndrome .

Learn more about typing and dyslexia .

Using a computer for work

Things have changed drastically since the age of typewriters. It used to be true that people considered typing a skill that primarily served administrative workers and in the 1970s it was not unknown for ambitious women to be advised to learn to type but not to admit it to avoid becoming type-cast; however, this is no longer the case.

Today everyone uses a computer and whether you are typing from the road or the office, it’s likely your boss will expect you to send emails, write reports, complete online tasks and to be self supporting in secretarial skills. Some things can be done on a mobile or tablet device, but when it comes to producing professional communication that is both copy-edited and correctly spaced, it may be best to use a desktop or laptop.

Keyboarding is a skill that makes you look professional. The hunched-back, crooked neck and poor posture approach that goes with the “Hunt-and-peck” method is not nearly as attractive. If you walk into a job interview and can type in a relaxed and effortless manner, you are sure to make a better impression.

You’ll be taken more seriously and your computer skills will be visible to others. Most important of all, you will save so much time . It also looks great on a resume and can open up new careers for you—read more in our post on jobs for touch-typists .

Where to take a course

Keyboarding helps us use a computer more effectively and efficiently. Computers open up online and language education access for students around the globe. They bring opportunity to remote areas, provide tools for individuals with learning difficulties and physical impairments, and connect us to people half a world away. That’s why learning to type is such an important skill.

Some fortunate individuals have the chance to learn keyboarding at school or at home. It may be part of a computer science course or introduced as a separate skill to prepare students for further education or online exams.

The Touch-type Read and Spell programme is offered at many schools and private tutoring centres and has been successfully used to teach children and adults keyboarding skills all over the world.

It is particularly helpful to have mastered touch-typing before transferring from junior-high to high-school.  Some centres choose to offer TTRS intensively as a holiday course and the TTRS team will be happy to discuss this option with you .

The course is modular in design and takes an Orton-Gillingham , phonics based approach to typing. This means it engages all of an individual’s senses. Students see a word on the screen, hear it spoken and type the corresponding keys, which reinforces learning in memory.

They build self-esteem and self-confidence as they receive automated feedback and proceed through the course at a pace that is right for them. Everyone can learn this way, but for students with learning differences the immediate success they experience, where they perhaps have struggled in the past, can have a remarkable effect on self-esteem and confidence as a learner.

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Having to write by hand made it hard for my son to get his thoughts down on paper, so we considered typing as an option. We started using Touch-type Read and Spell when my son was in Year 6 at Primary School. I used to have to help him a lot, but with the typing, he does his school work more independently, and I noticed that his spelling has improved.

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Maria used to type with two-fingers, slowly and often inaccurately. Now she types faster, with fewer errors, more competently and professionally. This has boosted her confidence in the workplace tremendously. She now recognises individual sounds in words much better, due to the auditory aspect of the multi-sensory approach in TTRS. Her vocabulary has noticeably improved and she has found she can explain things and express herself more clearly in English after completing the course.

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At Bolton College we offer the TTRS course to self-study adult learners who have returned to education to improve their spelling, increase their familiarity with technology, and use word processors. We find that for many adult learners in our program, the conventional ‘look-cover-spell-check’ approach they were taught at school had a detrimental effect on their learning. In contrast, Touch-type Read and Spell provides a rewarding and positive experience for them when it comes to spelling.

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Teach yourself to type

Teach yourself to type

Most adult learning programs and libraries offer basic skills computer courses , but is it possible to learn how to touch type on your own? Of course. If you have access to a computer, there are plenty of self-study programs that can help you get started. 

One of the first things you need to learn is the home-row position on the keyboard – also known as the home keys.

TTRS typing

TTRS typing - how is it different from other typing programs?

TTRS stands for Touch-type Read and Spell and is different from traditional typing programs in a few ways. For one, the words in TTRS lessons are whole words instead of nonsense key combinations. In this way, you can learn to spell as you learn to type.

More importantly, the words on the screen are accompanied by audio. This teaches you to connect letters to sounds and is important for learning to read, as well as to spell. TTRS follows a carefully structured curriculum of English phonics, so typing drills build automaticity in reading as you progress through the course.

Typing spelling words

Typing spelling words

There are many ways to practice a list of spelling words, from making flash cards, to using oral recitation, or just plain writing the words out by hand. Yet one of the most effective and easiest approaches is using a computer or tablet and wireless keyboard.

Not only is typing convenient, but it is also a multi-sensory activity that involves kinetic elements which can aid learning and retention of letter patterns. Typing is a highly accessible solution for learners who struggle with fine-motor skills and find it painful to write by hand, such as in dyspraxia .

It is also the preferred approach when dysgraphia is present or in certain cases of autism spectrum disorder , particularly for nonverbal individuals.

Moreover, touch-typing a word allows muscle memory to encode the spelling as a series of key strokes . This is a great aid for students who struggle with language-based learning difficulties. Learn more in this post on touch-typing for learners with dyslexia . Also note, learners with no disabilities, difficulties, or learning differences will still benefit from this approach as multi-sensory learning is effective for everyone.

How to practice typing

How to practice typing

Typing is one of those skills that takes practice to learn. There’s never been an individual, the world’s fastest typists included, who sat down at a keyboard and immediately began typing.

The reason for this is the muscles in your hands and fingers need time to adjust to new movement patterns. That’s why it’s important to introduce a handful of keys at a time, and move on only once you’ve mastered them.

Depending on the program you use, you might start with the home row keys or focus on vowels and then consonants following a curriculum of English phonics. Some courses may have drills made up of nonsense letter combinations, and others, like Touch-type Read and Spell, might take a whole word approach, making the course easier to follow for people with learning differences.

The benefit of typing real words from the beginning is that once the movement patterns have been acquired, they are stored in muscle memory and become procedural knowledge. Procedural knowledge is something you know how to do automatically and don’t have to think about, like driving or riding a bike. Turning spelling into procedural knowledge can help individuals who have dyslexia because the letters and letter sequences are saved in memory as a pattern of key-strokes that the fingers type out automatically.

What is the touch typing method and how does it compare to hunt-and-peck

The touch typing method vs. two-finger typing

One of the main differences between the touch typing method of keyboarding and two-fingered typing is in how you allocate your attention while you work at the computer. When you type with two or more fingers, also known as the “hunt and peck” approach, your attention is split between visually scanning for keys, looking at the screen and/or looking at any additional materials you are reading or copying from.

Computer basics for adults to help at school and in the workplace

Computer basics for adults

For adults who lack familiarity with computers, life in the modern age can be a challenge. That’s because technology is involved in almost every aspect of our lives: we need it for work, school, keeping in touch, day-to-day task management, remote education and even online shopping.

You need an email address to sign up for new services, make online purchases, apply for jobs and education programs, and communicate with friends and family. Even something as simple as locating a suitable local tradesman is more efficient when done through an online search vs. looking in the yellow pages.

And while tablets and smartphones account for a large portion of our daily technology use, computers are still an important tool. Being able to use word processors is practically a requirement for students and working professionals because most formal assignments and written reports must be typed. 

This is one reason why some adults decide to take a typing course to improve their keyboarding skills and make it easier and faster to write on the computer.

You can learn more about the benefits of learning how to type and review our top 10 tips for beginner typists in these articles. 

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Topic A: Keyboarding skills

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Touch Typing

Keyboarding skills – the ability to input information at a keyboard smoothly while typing.

Touch typing – a method of typing (with all the available fingers) without looking at the keyboard.

  • Touch typing can increase typing accuracy and speed.
  • Touch typing includes understanding keyboard layout and its functions.

Benefits of touch typing

Hands typing at a computer keyboard.

  • Accuracy (focus): make fewer mistakes
  • Productivity: type longer without getting tired
  • Health: less likely have health problems (hands, wrists, neck, etc.)

Typing tips

  • Maintain a healthy posture.
  • Familiarize yourself with the keyboard layout.
  • Start typing with touch typing.
  • Press each key with the proper finger.
  • Each key has to pressed by the same finger all the time.
  • Take a typing speed test to keep track of your progress.

Keyboarding Technique

A stick figure sits at a desk with a laptop. Their back is straight and their arms are at 90 degrees over the keyboard.

Proper posture

  • Body: centre body in front of keyboard and sit up straight.
  • Arm position: arms relaxed and bent to about 90 degrees; elbows naturally close to body.

The mouse and keyboard should be set to the height of elbow height.

  • Hand position: hands should be flat, but palms of hands not resting on the keyboard. Keep wrists off the keyboard.
  • Feet position: feet should be flat on the ground, slightly apart (don’t cross).

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