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What is Pangram

Encyclopedia of Information Technology Curriculum Integration
Also known as a holoalphabetic sentence; it is a sentence which uses every letter of the alphabet at least once. Pangrams are used to display typefaces and test typewriters. The best-known pangram in English is “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”
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Keyboarding and When to Teach It!
Colleen English (Robert Morris University, USA)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 5
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-881-9.ch082
Abstract
Over the past two decades typewriting has transformed into keyboarding. Twenty years ago students were taking typewriting classes in high school. No one ever thought to teach a first or second grade student how to type. Times have changed and the need to know how to type has steadily increased. This has also put increased pressure on educators to teach students how to use this new technology properly. Many schools have focused energy on teaching students how to use computers to obtain and produce information; they have paid little attention to teaching them how to type on the keyboard quickly and accurately, and with correct technique. But who decides at what age should we teach keyboarding? Who should be teaching these classes (Starr, 2005)?
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