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Did you take typing in high school?
Posted on 8/25/24 at 3:05 pm
Posted on 8/25/24 at 3:05 pm
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Over the past 25 years, the number of U.S. high schools teaching typing has fallen drastically. While about 44% of students who graduated high school in 2000 took a keyboarding course, by 2019 that figure had plummeted to 2.5%, according to the U.S. Department of Education.
Educators sometimes assume Gen Z digital natives already know how to type because they’re so familiar with tech. After all, nearly half of teens say they are online “almost constantly,” according to a survey from Pew Research Center.
But while today’s students have greater access to laptops, tablets and smartphones, that access doesn’t automatically translate into typing skills.
My HS cut typing right before my freshman year (1972). I have to confess that while I can type, I still look at my keyboard.
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Posted on 8/25/24 at 3:06 pm to tss22h8
Mavis Beacon taught me in grade school
Posted on 8/25/24 at 3:07 pm to tss22h8
I took it in JR high IIRC. Like 6th or 7th grade on an old school typewriter. It actually proved to be a quite useful class.
Posted on 8/25/24 at 3:08 pm to tss22h8
Yes, I started at a new school about three weeks into the school year and was given a true manual to type on while everyone else in the class had an IBM electric. I was graded just like them and was never allowed to rotate off the manual.
Posted on 8/25/24 at 3:09 pm to tss22h8
Keyboarding practice is important. There are a lot of online practice programs that some school districts purchase for students to complete at the late primary/early middle school grade level.
I still think that it’s disturbing that a lot of elementary schools no longer teach how to write in cursive.
Some schools barely even do handwriting practice anymore.
I still think that it’s disturbing that a lot of elementary schools no longer teach how to write in cursive.
Some schools barely even do handwriting practice anymore.
Posted on 8/25/24 at 3:10 pm to tss22h8
Yes.
Posted on 8/25/24 at 3:10 pm to tss22h8
Every person in my high school had to take BCA: business computer applications. Learned to type. Learned the basics of Microsoft Office. I think it was beneficial.
Posted on 8/25/24 at 3:10 pm to tss22h8
best class in high school and college to prep me for the real world.
Posted on 8/25/24 at 3:10 pm to tss22h8
Yes. It helped big time.
Posted on 8/25/24 at 3:10 pm to tss22h8
Yep.
Had to actually learn all the part of the type writer and how to change things and make it function.
Also had to type with your fingers on home row
Had to actually learn all the part of the type writer and how to change things and make it function.
Also had to type with your fingers on home row
Posted on 8/25/24 at 3:11 pm to tss22h8
Yes
Posted on 8/25/24 at 3:11 pm to purplengold1
Mavis Beacon taught me at first and then followed it up with typing my Jr. in high school. It has been a time saver.
Posted on 8/25/24 at 3:11 pm to tss22h8
We started with Mavis Beacon and other typing based learning programs in grade school. My middle school we were forced to learn typing without looking at keys either with a box covering the keyboard or using a special rubber cover that hid the keys. This was early to middle 2000s in private school. Microsoft Word and PowerPoint were utilized heavily back then. Did some Excel for basic formulas and making charts and graphs.
Posted on 8/25/24 at 3:11 pm to tss22h8
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While about 44% of students who graduated high school in 2000 took a keyboarding course, by 2019 that figure had plummeted to 2.5%, according to the U.S. Department of Education.
I question these statistics. Our students take keyboarding in middle school, and they have since well before 2019.
Posted on 8/25/24 at 3:11 pm to fr33manator
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Mavis Beacon taught me in grade school
This + games on the family computer at home.
I did take computer classes at Mandeville High, but it wasn’t solely typing. We’d get random assignments to do different things: make a basic spreadsheet, find 3 current events articles, put together a simple PowerPoint presentation.
I don’t know how useful the classes themselves were, but I (and most of my friends) were pretty computer literate by age 14. In the workforce I notice people 10-15 years older than me or 10-15 years younger are not nearly at the same level, which is somewhat surprising.
Posted on 8/25/24 at 3:13 pm to tss22h8
For about a week....
Then one day a young PCRammer decided to unfold a paperclip and try to throw it into an electrical outlet (they were face up on the floor in the typing room) and I'm telling ya it was 1 in a million shot, but yes there was an arc and then a short in the whole room.
So I was kicked out of typing.
Then one day a young PCRammer decided to unfold a paperclip and try to throw it into an electrical outlet (they were face up on the floor in the typing room) and I'm telling ya it was 1 in a million shot, but yes there was an arc and then a short in the whole room.
So I was kicked out of typing.
Posted on 8/25/24 at 3:14 pm to fallguy_1978
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It actually proved to be a quite useful class.
Two of the best things other that school smart stuff I learned were how to type and how to sew. Two years of typing and I am a wiz on the keyboard but the sewing was learned when my agriculture class switched with a home economics class for like a month. I laughed when I was learning how to sew in high school but dudes in the military were like where did you learn how to sew all your badges and stuff on like that. Yep in a good ole home eco class in high school.
Posted on 8/25/24 at 3:15 pm to tss22h8
Yep. One of the few practical things I still use.
Posted on 8/25/24 at 3:17 pm to FLBooGoTigs1
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Yep in a good ole home eco class in high school.
I damn near burned the school down in Home Ec
I took it because it was mostly chicks.
This post was edited on 8/25/24 at 3:17 pm
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