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Post by artsyk on Oct 3, 2020 4:24:36 GMT
No, none of my kids (14, 12 and 10) can type worth a damn. I am actually pretty frustrated about it and have been looking at options to teach them. I was also looking at typing club as an option. It is supposed to be taught in middle school, but it's like cursive--it seems to depend on the individual teacher they have as to how much or little it's emphasized. If you get a teacher who's more "old school" then you get it, but if not, I guess you're supposed to just pick it up along the way and that didn't happen for my crew. My daughter is using a program through school, but I'm not sure if you have to be affiliated with a school or not. www.typingclub.com I went to the site and it says you can learn for free, so may be worth a shot!
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Post by paigepea on Oct 3, 2020 4:46:46 GMT
Yes. Dd 14 and 11 both type. Not perfectly - not like I was taught in school - But well enough that it comes naturally and quickly to them when they’re doing school work.
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Post by worldwanderer75 on Oct 3, 2020 4:57:56 GMT
Yes. Our school offers a keyboarding elective class in middle school and I've made each of them take it. My youngest is still in elementary school and she has had typing at school for the past couple years as part of her regular classwork. They use typingclub in class for the elementary school.
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Post by epeanymous on Oct 3, 2020 11:04:31 GMT
I sent both of my now-teens to paid typing classes early in middle school. Their schools didn’t offer a typing class, and the one my middle school offered really helped me.
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Post by keithurbanlovinpea on Oct 3, 2020 11:19:57 GMT
Yes, my 18 and 21 year old both had to take keyboarding every year in the Catholic elementary school they attended. They both hated it but they can both type quite well.
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Post by mollycoddle on Oct 3, 2020 11:31:37 GMT
I am really surprised that all schools aren’t teaching it. It’s such a useful skill.
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Post by gizzy on Oct 3, 2020 15:21:51 GMT
Here, they have computers in grade school, so my children learned to type at a young age.
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Post by needmysanity on Oct 3, 2020 18:15:32 GMT
My college kiddo is taking a computer class this semester. I'm actually impressed with how much he knows. He said he learned most of it from his high school class (which I don't even remember him taking)
His typing is okay but getting better this semester because he has a lot of papers in his English class. At least he holds his hands correctly and doesn't use 2 fingers like my husband does.
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