Research suggests teaching typing and word processing skills should start in primary school, much like writing with pen and ...

So this year I (re)learned how to type. It all started because I wanted a cute keyboard with cute keycaps. I had lugged around a cheap, hand-me-up Kensington for years. Considering how much I work and ...

The specifics about my middle school computer lab have grown fuzzy over the years. I can’t recall my teacher’s name. I can’t say with certainty who regularly sat near me in the class. I certainly ...

With more standardized tests going digital, including most recently the College Board’s Advanced Placement exams, more schools are investing time and resources into keyboarding instruction, ...

Do you know how to type? Not hunting and pecking your way around a keyboard, but actual touch typing — you know, 10 fingers on the keyboard moving in perfect, clackity-clack synchrony? Considering the ...

MY CO-WORKERS and I have been attending computer “school” part-time over the last couple months. It’s my fifth such experience with an employer since 1980, and it has this graying head feeling a bit ...

Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, Josh wrote about everything from new Web start-ups, to remote-controlled robots that watch your house. Prior to joining CNET, Josh ...

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 ...