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Norma Torres-Hernández; María-Jesús Gallego-Arrufat; María del Mar García-Ruiz – Digital Education Review, 2023
Online risks are a concern for citizens in the digital society. Many sectors of the population lack training to face, prevent and solve problematic situations arising from Internet use. University researchers and innovation agents in small towns in southern Spain are carrying out an educational programme of 13 intergenerational workshops to…
Descriptors: Intergenerational Programs, Digital Literacy, Internet, Open Education
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Alonso Ruiz, Rosa Ana; Sáenz de Jubera Ocón, Magdalena; Valdemoros San Emeterio, María Ángeles; Ponce de León Elizondo, Ana – Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2022
Leisure activities shared by grandparents and grandchildren provide important benefits. The health and humanitarian crisis caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has made it necessary to use digital tools to alleviate the lack of contact between adults and children. This paper had as its aim to identify the digital leisure shared by…
Descriptors: Internet, Intergenerational Programs, Well Being, COVID-19
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Lee, Othelia EunKyoung; Kim, Do-Hong; Lee, Hyenjoo; Beum, Kyung Ah – Educational Gerontology, 2022
The Intergenerational Forum (IF), an innovative intervention, offers andragogic programs for community-dwelling older adults, enabling them to engage in youth-led tutorials to learn about Information Communication Technology (ICT). This study examines the outcome of a 12-week class focused on encouraging intergenerational exchange and mutual aid…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Information Technology, Internet, Computer Use
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Tambaum, Tiina – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2017
This study analyses how teenaged instructors paired with older learners make use of scaffolding. Video data were categorised according to 15 types of direct scaffolding tactics, indirect scaffolding, and unused scaffolding opportunities. The results show that a teenager who is unprepared for the role of an instructor of Internet skills for older…
Descriptors: Tutors, Adolescents, Teaching Methods, Internet
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Lawrence, Oliver – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2010
The Global Internet Video Classroom (GIVC) Project connected Chicago Civil Rights activists of the 1960s with Cape Town Anti-Apartheid activists of the 1960s in a classroom setting where learners from Cape Town and Chicago engaged activists in conversations about their motivation, principles, and strategies. The project was launched in order to…
Descriptors: Urban Education, Civil Rights, Racial Segregation, Program Descriptions
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Large, Andrew; Bowler, Leanne; Beheshti, Jamshid; Nesset, Valerie – McGill Journal of Education, 2007
The article presents a new technology design methodology that the authors have termed "Bonded Design" and that was applied by two intergenerational teams comprising adults and grade-three elementary school students in one case, and adults and grade-six students in a second case. The objective of each team was to design a low-tech web…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Internet, Intergenerational Programs, Team Training
Comings, John, Ed.; Garner, Barbara, Ed.; Smith, Cristine, Ed. – 2000
This book contains eight papers on adult learning and literacy. "The Year 1998 in Review" (Fran Tracy-Mumford) examines educational legislation and policy and developments in adult education program development, program accountability, strategic alliances and partnerships, and instructional methodologies and technologies. "Lessons…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adolescents, Adult Education, Adult Learning