Re: ABC vs. QWERTY

[Michael Jacobsen <MJacobsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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
> Information Systems Manager
> LaGrange County Public Library
> LaGrange, IN 46761
> Phone/Fax: 260-463-2841
>
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