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Posted by Your Guide on March 1, 2006 8:30 PM

Keyboarding programs are quickly becoming an essential part of many family’s educational software libraries. Let’s face it. Our children will be infinitely more computer literate than we can ever hope to be. They were born with a computer somewhere in their home. Many of us were adults before we had a chance to play or work on a computer.

Because a computer is as familiar to them as a toaster or telephone is to us, they are naturally more comfortable with them. Yet, regardless of our comfort level, we are aware that their futures will undoubtedly include computers in some form.

The manual and electric typewriters many adults learned to type on are all but forgotten dinosaurs in the landscape of office document production, but our children still need to learn to “type” or “keyboard” so that they can communicate with and through the computer.

Email will almost certainly eliminate most regular mail in the near future and instant messaging has already replaced many phone calls and notes. Therefore, to survive in the business world, and to communicate with their friends until they have that first job, our children must learn to keyboard without having to look at their hands, just as secretaries from the last generation learned to do.

Children’s educational software programs already exist in abundance that allow children to learn proper keyboarding techniques while the have fun playing the games incorporated into the lessons. No other tool will make the use of a computer as easy as a keyboarding program. Nevertheless, the biggest benefit of all is the added exposure to letters, spelling, and reading. Combining keyboarding with spelling and reading adds not only to the fine motor skills of hitting the correct keys, but reinforces correct spelling and sentence structure.

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