My oldest daughter is in Kindergarten this 12 months. Recently, she began utilizing a Chromebook in her classroom. The Chromebook that she makes use of at college is totally different from the one we’ve at residence. The distinction is minor for many of us, nevertheless 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 is completed by means of using a Chromebook keyboard overlay. The Chromebook that we’ve at residence would not have an overlay and subsequently the keys seem in all lowercase letters.
The bother with a keyboard that seems in all lowercase letters is that the letters “a” and “q” do not seem to a Kindergarten pupil in the identical means that they do when handwritten. I solely observed this final week when my daughter wished to observe typing her full identify 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 appropriate means.”
My daughter now acknowledges all “a” as an a on the keyboard, nevertheless it wasn’t with no little bit of battle.