A recent Wall Street Journal report delves into Gen Z’s surprising lack of keyboard typing skills, featuring interviews with several individuals and revealing some startling statistics.
The big picture: Gen Z, often considered digital natives, grew up glued to screens. However, their mastery has its limits – particularly with the humble physical keyboard, which seems as foreign to them as the possibility of getting scammed online does to boomers.
A recent Wall Street Journal report delves into Gen Z’s surprising lack of keyboard typing skills, featuring interviews with several individuals and revealing some startling statistics.
The report cited data from the US Department of Education, showing that in 2000, a staggering 44 percent of high school graduates took a keyboarding course. By 2019, that number had plummeted to just 2.5 percent. One might assume this is because Gen Z is so adept at typing that formal instruction seems unnecessary. Unfortunately, the reality is quite the opposite.
Christine Mueller, a former tech educator in Oklahoma City, witnessed this phenomenon firsthand.
