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The 60's Are the New 20's: Teaching Older Adults Technology
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Heaggans, Raphael C. – SRATE Journal, 2012
The purpose of this article is to present the existing practice-based and empirically based literature on teaching technology to seniors to determine a) what kind of research has been conducted to assess the effectiveness of teaching technology to seniors, b) what biases must be dismantled for younger computer trainers to teach older ones, c) what…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Technology Education, Science and Society, Technological Literacy