Why do we teach keyboarding?
This We Believe About Keyboarding
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Solid keyboarding skill can only be developed if proper keyboarding technique is utilized. Perfect keyboarding technique includes the following:
- Body is centered with the keyboard.
- Back is straight.
- Chair is placed the proper distance from the keyboard so that elbows hang at the sides of the body.
- Feet are placed for balance.
- Fingers are curved and resting on home row keys.
- Both thumbs are resting on the space bar.
- Only one finger at a time leaves the home row to "reach" or "curl" for another key.
- Wrists are lifted slightly off the keyboard.
- Hands stay still while keying.
- The correct finger is used to strike each key.
- Eyes stay on the copy, not on fingers.
- Students in Utah's schools should be introduced to proper keyboarding no later than the 3rd grade. Proper keyboarding should be reinforced in 4th and 5th grades. Intense keyboarding instruction to build speed and accuracy should be provided in 6th grade.
- All computer users should input information at a speed that is at least two and a half times the speed of hand writing.
- Creativity and composition are, in reality, thwarted by inefficient use of the keyboard.
(Adapted from Nebo School District's "This I believe about keyboarding in Utah's public schools".)
Why We Teach Keyboarding
Why We Teach Keyboarding
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USOE created a video to help communicate to parents why correct keyboarding is important.
Keyboarding is part of the Utah State Core Curriculum Links to an external site. and the Common Core Standards Links to an external site..
District formative and summative assessments require students to be able to enter writing samples through the computer keyboard.