full-size keyboard to be the primary input device? With so many kids
texting on devices that have word-completion algorithms will our
students still be using a big keyboard and desktop computer to
communicate in five years? Even the sub-notebooks with 80 or 90%
keyboards are pretty tough to touch-type on. And voice recognition
continues to improve . . . I wonder if typing (home row or
hunt-and-peck) on a QWERTY keyboard is really a 21st century skill.
Mark Whipple
Prospect Hill Academy Charter School
Cambridge, MA
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Joe Frost
<Joe.Frost@phoenixchristian.org> wrote:
> Too funny - nose & elbow.
>
> As a general rule I still push for home row and appropriate finger
> placement, but a couple years ago I had a young man that was able to use
> 2 fingers on one hand and 3 on the other and was still able to nail the
> WPM and accuracy.
>
> I should have put that on youtube. =A0It was hilarious to watch.
>
> I'm thinking that today kids could probably pick up the keyboard and
> just use their thumbs...
>
>
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