Gary Hopkins said:
“With
an enormous computer presence in schools, the question is no longer whether to
teach keyboarding but when to teach it.”
Is Touch Typing a multifaceted ability? The answer is Yes.
Research has shown that learning to type
early on, in the first few years of schooling, can benefit a student’s reading
and comprehension. With a lower percentage of our attention directed at
the keyboard, a student is able to concentrate more fully on his work and the
concepts being taught.
What Touch Typing helps with?
Touch Typing teaches a student how to decode and break down words and sentences. That can greatly help with spelling skills. As we learn to type we become used to the pattern of the QWERTY keyboard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY and the structure of the letters, muscle memory alone can help us remember how to spell!
Learning touch typing leads to a natural fluency when using a keyboard and faster typing speeds on average than someone using the ‘hunt and peck’ method (an improper form of typing where the user looks (hunt) at their keyboard for location, then presses (pecks) the key, generally using only their index fingers.)
For more info check:
Nessy
Fingers (Teaches touch typing while improving spelling.)
https://www.nessy.com/uk/product/nessy-fingers/
Education World https://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr076.shtml
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