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Costa, Cristina; Gilliland, Gemma; McWatt, Jennifer – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2019
This paper considers the social significance of digital technologies in older adults' lives by exploring the impact the web has on their lived experiences. The study of digital literacies and digital cultures is mostly focused on youth, thus paying limited attention to older adults' engagement with the web. With this paper, we aim to contribute to…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Generational Differences, Access to Computers, Technological Literacy
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Walter, Pierre – Adult Learning, 2013
Adult learning today takes place primarily within walled classrooms or in other indoor settings, and often in front of various types of digital screens. As adults have adopted the digital technologies and indoor lifestyle attributed to the so-called "Net Generation," we have become detached from contact with the natural world outdoors.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Outdoor Education, Influence of Technology, Age Groups
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Houck, Christiana – Performance Improvement, 2011
This article looks at virtual mentoring programs through a lens of generational differences, technological preferences, and communication styles. Best practices are framed to address the need to prepare the incoming millennials to lead the workforce as baby boomers exit. After a review of the literature, ideas are culled to apply the theory to a…
Descriptors: Mentors, Interpersonal Relationship, Virtual Classrooms, Baby Boomers
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Mesch, Gustavo S. – New Directions for Youth Development, 2012
Long-term studies monitoring the process of young people adopting new media patterns of social interaction and communication with parents and peers are needed to better understand how young people cope with perpetual peer communication, how parents and adolescents deal with intergenerational conflicts, and the outcomes of these practices and…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Social Change, Mass Media Role, Mass Media Use
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Bowen, Lauren Marshall – College Composition and Communication, 2011
Through an eighty-one-year-old woman's literacy narrative, I argue that literacy researchers should pay greater attention to elder writers, readers, and learners. Particularly as notions of literacy shift in digital times, the perspective of a lifespan can reveal otherwise hidden complexities of literacy, including the motivational impact of…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Computer Literacy, Age Discrimination, Social Bias
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Becker, Karen; Fleming, Julie; Keijsers, Wilhelmina – Education & Training, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide description and analysis of how a traditional industry is currently using e-learning, and to identify how the potential of e-learning can be realised whilst acknowledging the technological divide between younger and older workers. Design/methodology/approach: An exploratory qualitative methodology…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Industry, Generational Differences, Change Strategies
Marx, Gary – Educational Research Service, 2011
Seismic Shifts. Future Forces. Call them whatever you'd like. The Sixteen Trends revealed in this benchmark book will have a profound impact on our future. Noted futurist, educator, communicator, executive and leadership counsel, author, and international speaker Gary Marx makes the case for those trends and speculates on their implications for…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Ethics, Student Motivation, Trend Analysis
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Pikalek, Amy J. – Continuing Higher Education Review, 2010
In recent years, terms such as "social media" and "social networking" have become staples in the university continuing education marketer's vocabulary. This article provides both a working knowledge of the social media landscape and practical applications of the concepts using a case study approach from a Midwestern university.…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Adult Students, Economic Factors, Educational Environment