<html> <head> <style></style></head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Good Grief! It's all about testing isn't it? <div><br></div><div>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!</div><div><br></div><div>Caryl</div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div>> From: danceswithcars@gmail.com<br>> Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 04:34:21 -0500<br>> To: sverma@sfsu.edu<br>> CC: marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org; devel@lists.laptop.org; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org<br>> Subject: Re: [IAEP] keyboarding as a requirement<br>> <br>> 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)<br>> <br>> Alas some of the rest of us will be more productive with higher WPM baud type rate....<br>> <br>> ---<br>> Please excuse the typing, very small keyboard...<br>> <br>> <br>> > On Nov 10, 2013, at 14:04, Sameer Verma <sverma@sfsu.edu> wrote:<br>> > <br>> > This was on NPR, here in San Francisco.<br>> > <br>> > http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201311081630/c<br>> > <br>> > While I don't buy into all of the Common Core mumbo jumbo in the US<br>> > (my kid has to go through this, so we are dealing with it as parents),<br>> > the importance of keyboards is interesting. They didn't point out to<br>> > onscreen vs tactile, but the importance of tactile keyboards for<br>> > children is an important consideration.<br>> > <br>> > Maybe keyboarding will go away altogether once we can speak to our<br>> > computers like Captain Picard does for his "Tea, Earl Grey, hot", but<br>> > we are not there yet.<br>> > <br>> > cheers,<br>> > Sameer<br>> > -- <br>> > Sameer Verma, Ph.D.<br>> > Professor, Information Systems<br>> > San Francisco State University<br>> > http://verma.sfsu.edu/<br>> > http://commons.sfsu.edu/<br>> > http://olpcsf.org/<br>> > http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/<br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > Devel mailing list<br>> > Devel@lists.laptop.org<br>> > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br>> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org<br>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep<br></div></div> </div></body> </html>