The irascible goat in the purple jumpsuit is teaching the class how to keyboard. He tells everyone to put their fingers on the "home row" and exclaims "Let's rock and roll." Ashlyn Cortez, 8, ...

Computers play a huge role in our everyday lives, and now more than ever, it's important that educators provide computer basics for kids, what computers can do and how technology can be helpful. From ...

Keyboarding is, perhaps, the most essential of all 21st-century skills. With computers in use across the majority of U.S. schools now, many educators may feel the need to focus on educational software ...

Just how much of the students' work is done on the computer? William Below, language arts supervisor for Pocono Mountain School District, said, "We have a huge amount of computers at Pocono Mountain ...

In the early ‘90s, I was an elementary school librarian and an adjacent computer lab was part of my domain. Wanting to prepare our fifth graders to become more fluent writers, we ran them through a ...

From front, Hailey Hendrickson, Terranaja Moore and Betsaida Marroquin tap away in a typing class at King Science and Technology Middle School. Eighth-grader Hailey Hendrickson taps away in a ...

A jolly green chameleon pops up on the screen and gobbles up the letters “a-s-d-f” as fast as the autoworker named Alfred can peck them into his computer. “That’s supposed to make you a little relaxed ...