tunnel of the thumb. I am teaching third and fourth graders to touch type
because I'm pretty confident that at our school by January, our fourth
graders are typing a lot of their school work. By fifth grade they are
typing a great deal more. Whether touch typing will be needed in four or
five years. I don't know. I remember in the 80's hearing discussion about
whether typing would be necessary five years down the road. I'm thrilled to
have this skill. It's one of the best things I ever learned in school. I do
agree that typing 30 or so words a minute is probably sufficient.
Don't know how reliable this source is, but I do know I've come across other
articles saying pretty much the same thing.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1971836/many_young_people_suffer_from_teen.html?cat=15
Ellen
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Keith E Gatling <keith@gatling.us> wrote:
> Small pad texting skills are useful for jotting the short note to someone,
> but I'd hate to be even trying to write this email message using that
> method. Not to mention the fact that I seem to recall hearing something
> about a thumb version of carpal tunnel from too much texting.
>
> For the foreseeable future, the standard keyboard is still the way to go
> for
> getting large documents done. And let's not forget that handwriting has not
> totally gone the way of the horse and buggy (oh wait, we still have horses
> and buggies). They can all peacefully coexist for a long, long time.
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> keg
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