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  10. Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 14:23:05 EDT
  11. Sender:       "EDTECH - Educational Technology" <EDTECH@OHSTVMA.BITNET>
  12. From:         mhorney@OREGON.BITNET
  13. Subject:      Keyboarding Problems
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  15.  
  16. ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
  17. I would like to add different perspective to the questions about
  18. keyboarding that have appeared recently.
  19.  
  20. I've been doing research in the area of "Electronic Studying" in the past
  21. few years and have watched several different middle and high schools
  22. struggle with the problem of keyboarding. The general solution has been to
  23. offer across the board instruction to all students.
  24.  
  25. Now, while this instruction is generally effective, students do learn to
  26. keyboard with acceptable speed and accuracy, it does tend to absorb a large
  27. fraction of the available computing resources. In one middle school 5 of
  28. the 7 available computer lab periods were preempted by "computer literacy"
  29. classes, consisting primarily of keyboarding instruction. ALL other
  30. computer activities were relegated to the two remaining periods. We found
  31. that most students lost their keyboarding skills through in attention.
  32.  
  33. Keyboarding is a critically important skill, but I wonder about the
  34. ultimate effectiveness of wholesale instruction that leaves little time for
  35. these skills to be employed. Nor can secondary schools simply expect
  36. elementary schools to solve this problem for them.
  37.  
  38.  
  39. Mark Horney
  40. School of Education
  41. University of Oregon
  42. Eugene, OR 97403
  43. mhorney@oregon.uoregon.edu
  44. (503) 346-2679
  45.