My oldest daughter is in Kindergarten this 12 months. Lately, she began utilizing a Chromebook in her classroom. The Chromebook that she makes use of at college is completely different from the one we now have at dwelling. The distinction is minor for many of us, however it’s enormous for teenagers her age. That distinction is discovered on the keyboard.
The Chromebook that my daughter makes use of at college has all the letters showing as capitalized letters on the keyboard. For instance, the letter a seems as “A” and the letter q seems as “Q.” That’s completed by way of using a Chromebook keyboard overlay. The Chromebook that we now have at dwelling does not have an overlay and due to this fact the keys seem in all lowercase letters.
The difficulty with a keyboard that seems in all lowercase letters is that the letters “a” and “q” do not seem to a Kindergarten scholar in the identical approach that they do when handwritten. I solely observed this final week when my daughter wished to apply typing her full title which incorporates the letters a and q. She initially struggled as a result of she could not discover the a and q keys till I confirmed them to her. At which level she argued with me that “a” wasn’t “written the correct approach.”
My daughter now acknowledges all “a” as an a on the keyboard, however it wasn’t with no little bit of wrestle.
