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jodith
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« Reply #15 on: March 05, 2008, 12:21:25 am » |
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I took a year of typing in high school. I had one semester on manuals and one on electrics. We didn't have any of the typewriters that used the ball. They were still among the first generation of electric typewriters, and if you typed too fast, the keys still got all jammed together, the same as on the manuals.
I taught myself wordprocessing in the early 90s. First WordPerfect and then Word. When I learned to type (1979) there wasn't even a PC yet, much less a word processor as we know it today.
Most kids taking classes today don't take "typing". They take "keyboarding". They are taught on PCs from the beginning and most of them have never even seen a typewriter except on old TV shows.
I think it's very important to be taught proper typing technique. As someone else said it helps to prevent wear and tear on the joints, and it requires less energy because you are just moving your finger sand not your whole arm as you are if you're a two finger typist. It also allows you to type without looking at the keyboard, which two finger types have to do. I always amaze my boss by continuing to bype while I hold a conversation with him.
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