Sooo… apparently in 2000s keyboarding was taught way more even though there's way more jobs that require it today.
Now it's only 2.5%
I wish I was taught in high school tbh (taught myself later).
Posted by lunar_pixie_dust
Sooo… apparently in 2000s keyboarding was taught way more even though there's way more jobs that require it today.
Now it's only 2.5%
I wish I was taught in high school tbh (taught myself later).
Posted by lunar_pixie_dust
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I don’t think I know anyone who’s taken a typing class before and I’m 35. I think most people were likely self taught from using their home computers
IMO typing is an implicit skill now, just like using the internet or Google. I mean children are exposed to tech a lot more now and at a much younger age than the early 2000s when most tech devices were gaining wide-spread adoption.
I think there’s a lot more important fields that’s need to be taught in school before typing like financial awareness, politics, etc.
It’s taught in elementary schools in the US
i work in a professional environemt, i promise you dont need it. at least not as its defined in those keyboarding classes.
by keyboarding they mean “i understand how to use one”
i see people with 6 figure salaries of all ages typing with their index fingers, searching for each key for every single character
Pfft typing class. Learn to type the real way- RuneScape PKing. You get fast or die
And this is orders of magnitude more important than cursive.
We had keyboarding class in middle school when I was growing up. Probably in elementary now. You’re expected to have the skill by the time you reach HS in US.
Most useful class I took in High School to complete a class schedule in the 1980s. Went from worst to “most improved”. In college I typed others papers for some extra money.
Yeah bro I wonder how many high schools in the US still teach the ABCs
I learned how to type on a typewriter back in the mid 90s. Computers were around but typing was geared towards people having careers that used typewriters still, and at the time typewriters weren’t something that was commonly found in every house. With the prevalence of computers, you’d likely type at some point long before high school, and while you might not type optimally, you’d still be able to type good enough for most jobs requiring it. This ignores all forms of text to speech, which combined with AI is rendering typing obsolete in alot of the ‘requires typing’ careers. Typing will become akin to writing cursive in a decade, a dead art.
My son tested at 118 wam and he never took a class. They just started using laptops for classwork when he was in sixth grade so I guess maybe you learn naturally. I took a class for a full year on an old fashioned manual where you have to return the carriage at the end of the sentence back in the early 80s. I type about 40 wam if you take off for errors!
Yes drafting and typing got me jobs.
i graduated high school in 2021 and there’s a reason no public high schools have typing classes – we had it in elementary and middle school
0% of high schools teach the ABCs, but damn near 100% of jobs require working knowledge of the alphabet.
Data is closer to a decade old than it is to “today”.
High school?? I learned how to type in grade school…
With how prevalent keyboards are, if you’re *just* learning to type in High School, you are *significantly* behind the curve.
That’s an elementary school level skill these days if not younger, and has been since *I* was learning it 15 years ago at least (I can’t actually remember when I learned to type, but it was at least before 3rd grade when I have my oldest memories working in PowerPoint)
Totally anecdotal here, but I’m 27 and typing classes were never required throught my time in school (though I did take one in the 8th grade as an elective). I don’t know anyone my age who can’t at least type 40 words a minute, though I would say 95% of people in my age group type at least 60wpm.
Most kids will probably learn it naturally. And if they dont then there are probably better methods of doing it anyways. Were probably only 5-10 years away from AI text to speech being the go-to method of text entry. I am an engineer and I have never used a slide rule, but it was probably deemed a mandatory skill 30 years ago
Without question one of the most valuable classes I ever took. You had to give into the sight line blocker (some didn’t and “excelled” early on) but once you trusted home keys it was all over.
If you don’t know how to type by the time you get to high school your elementary school has failed you. Naturally it isn’t offered in high school. Anymore it’s a basic life skill like breathing or drinking water.
I assume most people just learn to type the way our forefathers did.
From Typing of the Dead.
Keyboarding/typing class was the most useful skill I learned in highschool (Class of 1990).
Our school system gives every kid a chrome book to use in 1st grade and they use it all the way through the grades. They type all day every day, there is no need for a class.
Setting us up to be more easily replaced whenever that time comes
Like others have said it’s taught in Elementary and/or Middle school now
I’ve said this for so many years that typing is one of the most, if not the most useful class I took in high school. I did it back in the late 80s on an IBM selectric typewriter. I’ve been a software engineer for 30 years now and it’s crazy how important this was. And it’s more critical for almost every information based career nowadays.
My kids learned it on their own somehow, though, on Discord when they were in their early teens. So if there is a need I think many will find a way. Middle and/or high schools should definitely be offering it.
Woah. I remember Mavis Beacon.
We had a general “computer skills” class one semester a year in middle school (mid-’00s). The other semester was a health class.
Also I vaguely remember home computer games while elementary school age whose purpose was to teach us touch typing.
Typing is an elementary school skill, why would it be taught in high school?
One would hope its the case, it’s like needing to teach the alphabet or basic arithmetic in high school
I was in high school in the late 90s and early 2000s and while they taught it in school, I actually learned to type at night, in the dark, while my girlfriend was sleeping and I was playing WoW.
I think they should teach touch typing. I think it’s great.
But you can learn touch typing on your own, or make do with poor typing habits in just about any job that doesn’t require specialized typing skills like stenography.
We all learned to type on our phones and that is not the same skill at all. In fact, our children will be more familiar with the QWERTY keyboard than we ever were in grade school.
Touch typing is simply a fundamentally necessary skill, ie not knowing touch typing doesn’t hold you back in the way that poor math or reading comprehension skills will.
And poor math and reading comprehensions skill are a serious problem in 205. Prioritizing Touch typing is a luxury.
Well, considering many schools worldwide use computers as a basic tool for a lot of things, I doubt it’s a high school subject.
My daughter is learning typing in 3rd grade…
Pretty stupid. All your work is on computers now. Don’t really think typing is a skill that needs taught. It’s kinda self explanatory….
This is probably why kids scoff at having to type 5 sentence, they don’t know proper typing skills. Sure, they implicitly know where the keys are located, but do they know proper home-row key positioning and hand form? I remember how difficult it was to type before and after learning proper keyboard etiquette. I THOUGHT I was good at typing before, then I learned proper hand positioning and man my keyboard skills skyrocketed.
For me, The thought of typing 5 sentences can be done in less than 30 seconds lol.
I leaned keyboarding in high school, but really got the practice playing world of Warcraft
Yeah because that’s a skill you learn well before high school. Hell, 20+ years ago I took that in middle school.
Probably because kids are born with iPads in there hands? I think they know how to type
Interesting that they teach everyone to write but not everyone to type
Not that writing isn’t important but arguably the average person in modern day will type way more than they write, tho I might be biased
I took a keyboarding class frsshman year of highschool. Complete waste of time. Im an engineer and spend too much time at a computer typing.
I feel like because there is no point. Most young people nowadays have access to the internet and computers so they learn how to do this stuff at home. I had a typing class in middle school but that was it.
More useful skill: getting reasonably proficient at MS Word.
I once met a highly respected academic, who typed only with his index finger. He was surprisingly fast though.
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