Digital Smarts - Kids and Typing

Students are learning to type at a younger age than ever before. Lori D'Andrea, a computer-technology teacher in Connecticut, has written the article The Gendered Past of Typing Education, explaining her approach to typing instruction with her kindergarten, first- and second-grade students. She points out that young children face some physical barriers to learning how to type, but also stresses that typing is an important skill to learn as so much of the testing they will face will be on computers, starting at a very early age.