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: [email protected] > Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 04:34:21 -0500 > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected]; [email protected] > 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 <[email protected]> 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 > > http://verma.sfsu.edu/ > > http://commons.sfsu.edu/ > > http://olpcsf.org/ > > http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/ > > _______________________________________________ > > Devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
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