[IAEP] keyboarding as a requirement

[Caryl Bigenho]

Good Grief! It's all about testing isn't it? 
Wouldn't it be wonderful if they put as much effort into teaching children to use a music keyboard? Ain't gonna happen though… alas!
Caryl


> From: danceswithcars at gmail.com
> Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 04:34:21 -0500
> To: sverma at sfsu.edu
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> Subject: Re: [IAEP] keyboarding as a requirement
> 
> For accessibility and disability rights, my guess is a more generic mastery of the input device would be better,  as some will have to point n peck ( anoteable wheelchair physics genius comes to mind, but not his name, as does Richard Feynman though he probably just modified the electrical signals directly with his mind, sniffle)
> 
> Alas some of the rest of us will be more productive with higher WPM baud type rate....
> 
> ---
> Please excuse the typing, very small keyboard...
> 
> 
> > On Nov 10, 2013, at 14:04, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
> > 
> > This was on NPR, here in San Francisco.
> > 
> > http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201311081630/c
> > 
> > While I don't buy into all of the Common Core mumbo jumbo in the US
> > (my kid has to go through this, so we are dealing with it as parents),
> > the importance of keyboards is interesting. They didn't point out to
> > onscreen vs tactile, but the importance of tactile keyboards for
> > children is an important consideration.
> > 
> > Maybe keyboarding will go away altogether once we can speak to our
> > computers like Captain Picard does for his "Tea, Earl Grey, hot", but
> > we are not there yet.
> > 
> > cheers,
> > Sameer
> > -- 
> > Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
> > Professor, Information Systems
> > San Francisco State University
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