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Partnerships between schools and aged care facilities.

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An article describing the partnership between a Canberra school and aged care facility. Students teach ICT skills to residents and digitally document their stories.

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Teenagers are turning stereotypes about young people around through a unique project in Canberra.

A wonderful partnership between local school Hawker College and aged care facility Kangara Waters has begun to change the way different generations think about each other.

Students from the college volunteer at the resident's home each Friday through a range of activities such as helping out in the Dementia unit, teaching residents computer skills and sharing stories as part of an oral history project.

In turn the residents are sharing their life experiences and mentoring the younger people in their career choices.

Hawker College student Natalee Wishewan says she was a little daunted when she first put up her hand to work in the Dementia Unit, but that soon changed.

"It was a bit like, what would I expect, how would I react to them, but once I got here I really did realise that everyone in here is special in their own way, and they are just regular people, and you can have some really good conversations. I really enjoy it.

Beth Peters, Hawker College's school based apprenticeship coordinator, says the number of students who have shown interest in working with people living with Dementia has been wonderful.

"When we send these students over to do work experience, the majority of them come back and say they want to work in the Dementia unit," she said.

"I find that quite amazing, I think they find it a little more challenging and there is that bit more interest."

The partnership between Kangara Waters and Hawker College began when Peters knocked on the door of the aged care home and met the manager Margaret Thornton.

Margaret was very open to the students working with her residents.

"Our staff don't necessarily get the time to sit down and spend quality time with the residents and really hear about their stories," she told 666 ABC Canberra.

"I think for the staff also to see teenagers sitting down and talking to the elderly residents, well it makes them think that people do care."

One of the ways the students are really listening to the older generation is through the story telling project.

Student Josh Rees says they are aiming to record the oral histories of the residents, through written stories and photos.

"We're working on it at school, and building a book, and we're going to put pictures and big occurrences in their lives, but also add in the little stories as well...and we're hoping in November to hand the book to the residents."

Fellow student Nick Fantich has found it a very emotional experience listening to the lives of the older residents and recording their stories.

"All the residents here are really excited to see young people like myself and Josh come in here and listen to their stories, and reflect back with them."

Nick has been inspired to do a similar thing now with his own family.

"I'm going to see my grandparents in a few weeks and I'm definitely going to ask them some questions and hear about their childhood."

The residents too have enjoyed the chance to share their stories; Geoffrey Petit says it has helped to keep his mind active.

"I'm very pleased to be able to talk to somebody about my life....I live alone here as you can see, I don't get out of the room at all, and it's nice to have people to try my mind on, they're asking me difficult questions at times and it helps my mind."

Tony Steegle, the Lifestyle Manager at Kangara Waters says the program has helped bridge the generations together.

"It definitely corrects an imbalance, in as much as connecting young and old again, so if they haven't got grandchildren, there is this imbalance there and that is corrected by this fantastic initiative."

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It's on for young and old at Kangara Waters Aged Care

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Teenagers are turning stereotypes about young people around through a unique project in Canberra. A wonderful partnership between local school Hawker College and aged care facility Kangara Waters has begun to change the way different generations think about each other.

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An awareness raising website which includes a wall of success stories picturing teen mentors with their mentee.

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Volunteer and take action! Teach older adults how to text using emojis.

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A program that brings together youth and seniors using technology as theme.

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A project independently developed and documented by high school students.

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Foundation of a New Program
Teens Teaching Seniors
Welcome!
~10:00 am-Noon~

~Every Saturday (except when library is closed)~

~Open to senior citizens~

~One-on-one computer/ technical help~
Routine
Sign in
Evaluation by librarian
Introduction
Discuss questions/ problems
Transfer over to personalized computers
E-cards
Tutorial
Obstacles
Purpose
Introduce modern technology (stay in the loop)

Ease anxiety about its complexity

Educate how to use their gadget's functions

Enable them to connect with family and friends
What We Taught
First Steps
Scouted tutoring programs

Checked South Natomas Library

Met w/ librarian: Ms. Marian Simmons

Planned new computer-help program
Place of Service
South Natomas Library
Parts and functions
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Excel
Browsers
Email
Printing
Smartphones, tablets, kindles, laptops,etc
Advertising the program
-No visitors for first few weeks

Privacy concerns

Distractions in library environment

Lack of time
Taken Into Consideration
Physical challenges
Ms. Wilma

Mental health

Short-term memory

Repetition

Where technology meets the elderly!
Benefits
2901 Truxel Road,
Sacramento
CA 95833
(916) 264-2700
Growth
Impact
Patience

understanding those on the other side of the age spectrum

appreciation for life

serving the community
Give back to community
Bridge gap between senior citizens and technology

Make a difference in their lives

Give advice
Sharing funny, amusing stories
Enjoy each others company
Teens Teaching Seniors
Miss Ada Torrence, working on her own, after getting help with email...
Article published
by Saclibrary, highlighting importance and value of this program, to spread the word!
Loving and Encouraging
Students
& Staff

Independence
Research medical info
Current with world events
Connect with family/friends
Source of entertainment
Online billing/ accounting
Take online classes
Keep health record/ on track with health, diet and nutrition
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This article describes the implementation of a training program aimed at providing teens with the training they need to create individual digital literacy lessons for seniors.

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Google Fiber arrived in Kansas City in the fall of 2012, and now Google is helping to get more people-particularly senior citizens-up to speed on using the Internet so they also can take advantage of the super high-speed fiber service.

To do that, Arts Tech, a Kansas City, Mo.-based youth organization that works with underserved urban teens to help them develop marketable artistic and technical skills, is using grant funds from Google Fiber and other organizations to train a group of local teens so that they can then teach senior citizens about using computers and the Internet.

The program, which is providing training for the teens right now, was unveiled by Dave Sullivan, the executive director of Arts Tech, in an April 14 post on the Google Fiber Blog.

The Arts Tech project to match teens and seniors for technology lessons is being funded by the Kansas City Digital Inclusion Fund, a pool of money that was made available to nonprofit organizations that want to close the digital divide, wrote Sullivan. The funding comes from Google, The Sprint Foundation and other groups.

When Sullivan heard about the funding possibilities, he envisioned a local project that could match the 44 percent of seniors in the area who don't use the Internet with the 93 percent of local teens who use the Internet regularly, he wrote. "My colleagues were excited by the idea; after all, it fits right in with our mission to help urban teens develop technical skills. But I was really blown away by the excitement and enthusiasm our teens showed. Dozens of them said they'd want to participate in a program like this."

Arts Tech then applied for and received a Digital Inclusion Fund grant, and local students are now training to be able to work with seniors later this summer.

"This isn't a walk in the park for these teens; we've pulled together a pretty rigorous 60-hour training program," Sullivan wrote. Instead of sleeping in on Saturday mornings, students join us to learn about computer hardware, in-home networking, the Internet and computer software. They're also learning how to work with seniors, and how to develop their very own digital literacy curriculum (like planning classes on how to create email addresses, and how to use social networks to connect with friends) that they'll be able to teach by the end of the program."

Alex Villasenor, director of computer redistribution at Arts Tech, who is teaching the course to the teens, told eWEEK that there are 20 students in the class at present. The teens are about halfway through their training so far, he said, and will also gain lessons about their communities and neighborhoods and the needs there are for volunteering.

Once the training is finished, by sometime in July, Arts Tech plans to have a big event where the seniors and teens can be brought together for mutual learning, said Villasenor.

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Teens Learn to Teach Seniors About the Internet

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Google Fiber arrived in Kansas City in the fall of 2012, and now Google is helping to get more people-particularly senior citizens-up to speed on using the Internet so they also can take advantage of the super high-speed fiber service.