In the early ‘90s, I was an elementary school librarian and an adjacent computer lab was part of my domain. Wanting to prepare our fifth graders to become more fluent writers, we ran them through a ...

The 7-year-olds in Natalie May’s class have to stretch their fingers across the keyboards to reach “ASDF” and “JKL;” as they listen to the animated characters on their computer screens talk about ...

At his mother’s insistence, Mitchell Chester took a typing class in school even though it was not required for his college-prep course loadat Bloomfield High School. Back in 1970, “I was one of the ...

Affirming that computer skills are a necessity of modern life, the Harvard District 50 School Board voted unanimously to add a one-semester keyboarding course as a graduation requirement to the high ...

Over the past two years, I’ve typed nearly every word I’ve written while traveling on the iPad Pro’s Smart Keyboard Folio. For more on why, you can see my iPad Pro review here. For the purposes of ...

My first typing class was in elementary school. It consisted of many hours of Mario Teaches Typing, and I eventually discovered that my teacher lied when she said that the game would know if I used ...

One of the most venerable typing tutors celebrates its quarter-century mark. Back in the late 1980s, I sold software and hardware at anow-defunct store in NYC; one of our best-sellers was “Mavis ...

Whether at a job or after hours in your spare time, computers are everywhere. Is there a particular skill you would like to learn? Maybe typing, Microsoft office, photoshop, blogging or spreadsheets ...

If you spend a lot of time typing with a physical QWERTY keyboard (a keyboard where the top row of character keys begins with the Q key), you may have noticed that there are raised lines on the “F” ...

Whether you’re a lightning-fast typist or just want to experiment with an alternative input tool, I encourage you to give ...