Re: ABC vs. QWERTY

["Mark Allen" <scprideandms@xxxxxxxxx>]

I still "chuckle" over my son (now 16) when he was about 3 1/2 or so.  I
consulted and traveled so I had my laptop require a boot password.  I came
back from taking a shower to find my son playing a computer game of his on
my laptop that I had installed for him.  I asked him how he got in and he
said when that blue box came up he typed in his first and middle name like I
did and pressed enter then clicked on his icon like I did.  First time he
had "tried" it by imself......




On 7/10/06, Michael Jacobsen <MJacobsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think using QWERTY keyboard could be a way to help learn the ABC's.
> Couple that with ABC learning software and the kid has to search on the
> keyboard to find the correct letters.  It's not right there in a row where
> they just mindlessly click one key after the next.  It seems to me they
> could learn to type and practice their ABC's at the same time.
>
>
> -Mike
>
> pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 07/10/2006 10:05:03 AM:
>
> > My four kids (youngest just turned 4) picked up on QWERTY right away,
> > pretty much around the age your kid is.  The 4 year old is even figuring
>
> > out the Dvorak keyboard my wife uses (she's a medical
> > transcriptionist).  I would *think* a kid could adjust to a different
> > keyboard fairly easily, but why make more work for them than is needed?
> > I liked the other poster's idea of getting different ABC toys instead of
>
> > using a keyboard for their ABCs. <vbg>
> >
> > Mark Plank
> >
> > Joe Pluta wrote:
> >
> > >That personal position aside, what I was really looking for was input
> from
> > >people who use keyboards regularly as to whether or not they think
> switching
> > >keyboards is difficult.
> > >
> >
> > --
> > Mark Plank
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> > LaGrange County Public Library
> > LaGrange, IN 46761
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> >
> >
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