Learning the ABCs was the way most English-speaking Americans began their journey in formal education. We were taught to sing the “Alphabet Song” before we were potty trained. The ABCs ran, in order, ...

Why are we pushing ahead into mobile learning? One possibility is that we are all making a huge collective mistake. That we have drunk the iPad / iPhone / Android Kool-Aid. That we will look back on ...

It has been around since the 1870s - but many people still have no idea why we use QWERTY keyboards. Originally, early typewriters used an alphabetical arrangement but newspaper editor Christopher ...

The QWERTY keyboard layout was invented in the 1870s by Christopher Latham Sholes to prevent typewriter keys from jamming. It remains the most widely used keyboard layout today. Representative Image ...

Last month, NPR asked listeners and readers and a Harvard professor what technologies have stuck around a little too long. He's talking about the QWERTY layout — in use since the earliest typewriters.

Fact of the day: the QWERTY keyboard is bad. It does not provide the best way to type. We've known this for a while, and yet we're still using it; the QWERTY keyboard, developed in 1868, has somehow ...