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

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.

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 ...

When someone you know is ready to learn how to type, especially your kids, you should give the Dance Mat Typing Game a try! Even though it’s geared specifically for children, people of any age ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...