Keyboarding is, perhaps, the most essential of all 21st-century skills. With computers in use across the majority of U.S. schools now, many educators may feel the need to focus on educational software ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The 7-year-olds in Natalie May’s second-grade class have to stretch their fingers across the keyboards to reach “ASDF” and “JKL;” as they listen to the ...

Learning to type has come a long way from banging out rows of f-f-f and j-j-j. So has the intended audience, which has moved from middle schoolers to include children as young as kindergarten. There's ...

When it comes to taking notes, new research indicates that writing by hand may stimulate the brain more than typing. Handwriting was found to be better for learning and memory in comparison to typing ...

Writing by hand strengthens the learning process. When typing on a keyboard, this process may be impaired. Neurophysiologists have examined research which goes a long way in confirming the ...

Perhaps I type improperly, but I haven't used my pinky finger to type a single letter in this entire sentence on a QWERTY layout keyboard. As best I can tell, this is the same position as the "L" on ...

After the success of gesture-based keyboards such as Swype (and if you’re really keeping track, ShapeWriter before it), the next obvious disruption to keyboard technology is optimisation of the legacy ...