This paper examines the use of the technology of the electric typewriter and the electronic calculator in the curriculum of the elementary school. Each technology will be looked at in context of the historical development of the skill which each technology implies, viz., communication and calculation respectively.
A summary section will discuss the significance of each technology as it pertains to current and future curricula. As controversy waxes and wanes periodically over the training of future writers, this paper points out an interesting issue, instruction in elementary school.
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