Typing.com: A fun and easy tool for kids to teach themselves typing

Typing.com teaches keyboarding, digital literacy, and coding to students and can be used independently or as a classroom set. Typing.com offers lessons in multiple languages that teach students how to type and develop important digital skills. They offer series of typing games to keep children engaged and motivated. Typing.com was created to help students develop keyboarding skills, digital literacy, coding fundamentals, career prep, and more. Students complete lessons according to their typing level. The lessons assess their typing accuracy and speed and end with a cumulative assessment at the end. Typing.com also offers games to keep students engaged. Some teachers really like how Typing.com doesn't overdo their lessons with animations and colorful cartoons. The lessons are simple and engaging without being distracting. Some teachers feel that the Typing.com program itself isn't entirely robust as a stand-alone, and would work best as a supplementary program. However, we’ve found it to be more than adequate to teach kids in our program typing at Modulo.

Grades: Elementary to high school students

Cost: Typing.com is free!

OTHER DETAILS

Key features

Type of Tool: Website

Time required: Students can decide how long they wish to use this resource. Each lesson takes around 10 minutes or less.

Special Needs:

Literacy Requirement (does a child need to know how to read):

Screens

Screens:  Yes, an electronic device is required

Online requirement:

Time

Parent/Caregiver Involvement: Yes, kids can use it with no help from a parent, teacher or caregiver

Prep Time:  No prep time required

Other characteristics

Modality: Visual, Hands-on/kinesthetic

Adaptive: Yes, it includes personalization

Educational Philosophy: Not really, doesn't seem to be influenced by a particular educational philosophy

Other characteristics:   Typing

Accountability

Assessment: Yes, there are built in assessment tools

State Standards: No

Teacher Accounts:

Read Reviews: https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/typingcom

Purchase:  https://www.typing.com/student/lessons