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January 14, 2020

The Value of Touch-Typing

fingers placed on a QWERTY keyboard

Kids are very impressed when they observe me typing — or is it called keyboarding now? I will call it typing, since I am an old dog and I don’t feel like learning yet one more new trick. I learned touch-typing in HS on one typewriter in a room full of other students and typewriters, […]

Article by Susan Morris / Language Arts, Study Skills, Technology / keyboard, kids and technology, morris-tutoring, phoenix tutoring, QWERTY, touch-typing, winnie-the-pooh

January 7, 2020

A New Year’s Resolution: To Help Your Child Succeed in School

Helping a child to succeed and to cope with failure

The first documented New Year’s Resolutions are attributed to the Babylonians, whose culture dates back thousands of years. It was an idea that has withstood the test of time, but — as Hamlet observed — it’s a custom more often honored in the breach than in the observance. Here’s one to consider, nevertheless, courtesy of […]

Article by Ken Furtado / Parenting, Study Skills, Value of Tutoring / kids and technology, learning, morris-tutoring, phoenix tutoring, social media, succeed in school, technology

December 10, 2019

Will the Internet Make You Stupid?

Cell phone grabs a piece of a child's brain

It’s been said that the Internet does not make you stupid, it merely broadcasts your stupidity to the world. But the pundits may be wrong. Recent thought-provoking studies, which beg to differ, argue that the Internet may indeed make you stupid! And they have evidence to support them. Writer Nicholas Carr earned a Pulitzer Prize […]

Article by Ken Furtado / Culture Wars, Parenting, Technology / American academy of pediatrics, google, hypertext, kids and technology, language development, Nicholas Carr, phoenix tutoring, Pulitzer Prize, screen guidelines, ScreenQ, The Shadows

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