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Keyboarding

Key’d racer

Saturday, September 29th, 2007

My internal musings and real life intersected yesterday, when out of the blue, Andy asked if we could buy the software program, Type to Learn. This, just an hour after I posted about keyboarding and the sad demise of cursive. It seems he’s clocked the second fastest typing speed in his class, and he wants […]

QWERTY questions

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

Will keyboarding triumph where Handwriting Without Tears failed for my child? Andy’s always had handwriting issues (except for one perfect moment in third grade, when he proclaimed, “Cursive rocks”). These days, it’s as if thoughts rush from his brain like a river in spring, down through his arm, then hit his tightly clenched fingers on the pencil, […]