KEYBOARD SOFTWARE

The role that software plays can enhance keyboarding skills. However, software cannot take the place of a qualified teacher. Many popular keyboarding software packages violate psychomotor skill development. The complexity of teaching keyboarding requires an extensive and extremely well-written software program. No software program has been shown to be superior to capable, live keyboarding instruction. Software programs serve well for drill, remediation, enrichment practice, as well as adding variety to keyboarding instruction. Software cannot be programmed to see, to hear, or to feel the keyboarding instructional needs of the student. On the horizon is speaker and dictation software. While this software has been technologically feasible for some time, the cost is prohibitive and the accuracy is questionable.