Sooo… apparently in 2000s keyboarding was taught way more even though there's way more jobs that require it today.
Now it's only 2.5%
I wish I was taught in high school tbh (taught myself later).
Posted by lunar_pixie_dust
Sooo… apparently in 2000s keyboarding was taught way more even though there's way more jobs that require it today.
Now it's only 2.5%
I wish I was taught in high school tbh (taught myself later).
Posted by lunar_pixie_dust
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I don’t think I know anyone who’s taken a typing class before and I’m 35. I think most people were likely self taught from using their home computers
IMO typing is an implicit skill now, just like using the internet or Google. I mean children are exposed to tech a lot more now and at a much younger age than the early 2000s when most tech devices were gaining wide-spread adoption.
I think there’s a lot more important fields that’s need to be taught in school before typing like financial awareness, politics, etc.
It’s taught in elementary schools in the US
i work in a professional environemt, i promise you dont need it. at least not as its defined in those keyboarding classes.
by keyboarding they mean “i understand how to use one”
i see people with 6 figure salaries of all ages typing with their index fingers, searching for each key for every single character
Pfft typing class. Learn to type the real way- RuneScape PKing. You get fast or die
And this is orders of magnitude more important than cursive.
We had keyboarding class in middle school when I was growing up. Probably in elementary now. You’re expected to have the skill by the time you reach HS in US.
Most useful class I took in High School to complete a class schedule in the 1980s. Went from worst to “most improved”. In college I typed others papers for some extra money.
Yeah bro I wonder how many high schools in the US still teach the ABCs
I learned how to type on a typewriter back in the mid 90s. Computers were around but typing was geared towards people having careers that used typewriters still, and at the time typewriters weren’t something that was commonly found in every house. With the prevalence of computers, you’d likely type at some point long before high school, and while you might not type optimally, you’d still be able to type good enough for most jobs requiring it. This ignores all forms of text to speech, which combined with AI is rendering typing obsolete in alot of the ‘requires typing’ careers. Typing will become akin to writing cursive in a decade, a dead art.
My son tested at 118 wam and he never took a class. They just started using laptops for classwork when he was in sixth grade so I guess maybe you learn naturally. I took a class for a full year on an old fashioned manual where you have to return the carriage at the end of the sentence back in the early 80s. I type about 40 wam if you take off for errors!
Yes drafting and typing got me jobs.
i graduated high school in 2021 and there’s a reason no public high schools have typing classes – we had it in elementary and middle school
0% of high schools teach the ABCs, but damn near 100% of jobs require working knowledge of the alphabet.
These are the same classes where they would also learn how to use Word, PowerPoint (and have some stupid fun) and maybe learn how to actually use a computer and do real Google searches. We just started assuming that because computers became more prevalent in the home that we didn’t need to teach kids, but those kids are in households with parents who don’t know shit about fuck when it comes to computers, and now we just started assuming that growing up with a phone or tablet equates to using a computer properly. We (not me) made assumptions and it’s currently biting us in the ass.
Data is closer to a decade old than it is to “today”.
High school?? I learned how to type in grade school…
With how prevalent keyboards are, if you’re *just* learning to type in High School, you are *significantly* behind the curve.
That’s an elementary school level skill these days if not younger, and has been since *I* was learning it 15 years ago at least (I can’t actually remember when I learned to type, but it was at least before 3rd grade when I have my oldest memories working in PowerPoint)
Totally anecdotal here, but I’m 27 and typing classes were never required throught my time in school (though I did take one in the 8th grade as an elective). I don’t know anyone my age who can’t at least type 40 words a minute, though I would say 95% of people in my age group type at least 60wpm.
Most kids will probably learn it naturally. And if they dont then there are probably better methods of doing it anyways. Were probably only 5-10 years away from AI text to speech being the go-to method of text entry. I am an engineer and I have never used a slide rule, but it was probably deemed a mandatory skill 30 years ago
Without question one of the most valuable classes I ever took. You had to give into the sight line blocker (some didn’t and “excelled” early on) but once you trusted home keys it was all over.
If you don’t know how to type by the time you get to high school your elementary school has failed you. Naturally it isn’t offered in high school. Anymore it’s a basic life skill like breathing or drinking water.
I assume most people just learn to type the way our forefathers did.
From Typing of the Dead.
Keyboarding/typing class was the most useful skill I learned in highschool (Class of 1990).
Our school system gives every kid a chrome book to use in 1st grade and they use it all the way through the grades. They type all day every day, there is no need for a class.
Setting us up to be more easily replaced whenever that time comes
Like others have said it’s taught in Elementary and/or Middle school now
I’ve said this for so many years that typing is one of the most, if not the most useful class I took in high school. I did it back in the late 80s on an IBM selectric typewriter. I’ve been a software engineer for 30 years now and it’s crazy how important this was. And it’s more critical for almost every information based career nowadays.
My kids learned it on their own somehow, though, on Discord when they were in their early teens. So if there is a need I think many will find a way. Middle and/or high schools should definitely be offering it.
Woah. I remember Mavis Beacon.
We had a general “computer skills” class one semester a year in middle school (mid-’00s). The other semester was a health class.
Also I vaguely remember home computer games while elementary school age whose purpose was to teach us touch typing.
Typing is an elementary school skill, why would it be taught in high school?
One would hope its the case, it’s like needing to teach the alphabet or basic arithmetic in high school