When I was a kid they taught penmanship too. I was awful at it but then when I was an adult I had a job where I actually had to use those skills and I was glad to have them - same thing with everything I learned in Home Ec. I think all of those classes are extinct now, based on how people talk about school never teaching them anything actually useful.
Comment on Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills
NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Do public schools not teach keyboarding anymore? I ask because I had a keyboarding classe two-hrs 1day per week in grade school plus a full class one year in 7th grade and then again for a full year in high school, and they were always taught by some of the oldest teachers in the school. -My high-school teacher started his career teaching typewriter typing something like three or four decades prior to teaching me in 2004. It seems strange that new young people aren’t getting that same basic education.
SSJMarx@lemm.ee 1 week ago
flashgnash@lemm.ee 1 week ago
We didn’t have specific typing class but we had IT in both primary and secondary, at least late gen z got plenty of computer time in school and most I know in my generation are decent typists at least
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
I don’t know if they do but if they do I doubt they’ve improved. The technique taught by many touch typing courses is a recipe for a wrist injury. It blows my mind that regulatory bodies aren’t calling for keyboard layout reform. The “normal” row stagger keyboard as well as the qwerty layout should be in museums, not on billions of “modern” computers around the world.
Cyyy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
qwertz ftw.
*duck and run*
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
I used to switch back and forth between qwerty and qwertz on two different computers, and the laptop unlock passwords had a z in them. That was tough times.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I like the free stretchies I get from Ctrl+Z on the DE layout.