Keyboarding

Keyboarding. Do you know what it is, and are your children practicing it?
Well, you probably do know what keyboarding is, because you are reading this online. That indicates that you probably used keyboarding to get here. Not so long ago homeschooling was done around the kitchen table, with notebooks, workbooks, and textbooks.
Now days, more and more families are utilizing the internet to home educate their children. When I was in high school, we took typing lessons, now children are practicing keyboarding. This is more than just typing letters, but includes learning to utilize the functionality of today’s modern keyboards.
In our house, keyboarding is also an adaptive technology. My daughter hates to write. She says that writing for any length of time causes pain in her hand and arm. If you saw how tightly she grips the pen you would probably agree that writing is painful for her. However, I cannot allow her to not write just because it is painful.
Our way around this is that she practices keyboarding as a course. She practices her typing skills in her core curriculum, as well as using keyboarding games. The games make it fun, and challenging. She enjoys trying to beat her best time, or her accuracy in the keyboarding games. Learning should be fun, right??