Slam Dunk Typing, from The Learning Company (formerly from Creative Wonders), targets basketball and video-game loving teenagers.Mario Teaches Typing 2, from Brainstorm uses characters and a style familiar to millions of Nintendo-lovers.It is best suited for children who like sports arcade games, and competition. JumpStart Typing, from Knowledge Adventure, is a fun and effective learn-to-type program.Read, Write & Type, from Talking Fingers (previously published by The Learning Company), is a combination program, merging the teaching of phonics-based reading skills with an introduction to typing.Disney’s Adventures In Typing with Timon & Pumba from Disney Interactive, is a beautifully animated program for beginning typists.This updated comparison includes our review of Keyboard Classroom, a program specially designed for users with learning disabilities, but useful for any student learning to type. All of them were judged to be effective by our parent, teacher, and kid reviewers - but as one noted: 'you have to want to learn to type, to succeed.' The one advantage that a traditional classroom typing course has over all of these programs, is the watchful eye of a teacher, discouraging the tendency most beginners have to look at their hands and not the screen or paper. SuperKids' review teams have looked at more than a dozen 'learn to type' programs. The question we posed to our reviewers was simple - do they work? In fact, typing programs were among the first educational PC titles developed.

Typing would seem to be an ideal subject matter for computer-aided instruction: learning to type takes practice, different students need to practice different skills, and students progress at different paces. SuperKids Software Review of Typing Software.

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