EDU 649: Final Project - Teaching Older Adults to Use a Computer

Older Adults, age 65 and older, want to communicate with their grandchildren, But it seems their grandchildren only want to communicate digitally. So more and more older adults are sitting down in front of computers and asking. "How do these things work?" And when their children and grandchildren try to show them everybody ends up frustrated and aggravated. So the older adult goes in search of a computer class. And it turns out that the people teaching them are significantly younger and have no experience working with older adults.

You will address the issues involved  in teaching computer skills to older adults. In this WebQuest you will learn what attitudes and/or illnesses along with any other obstacles exits that might cause a barrier to effectively teaching older adults. You will identify the obstacles and determine ways to overcome them I your instruction.

In your quest for this knowledge you will develop a lesson plan and materials that you can use in teaching older adults to use computers.