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A class full of grandmothers (14 out of 17) completed the course last Friday. It was the 7th edition of the Grandparents on the Internet Project held at the F. De Andrè Middle School in the Villa Doria Pamphili Park.
Fifteen student tutors from the 5th and 6th grades and two coordinating teachers, Leda e Roberto, managed the course for the elderly students.
School administrator Fanny Greco summarises the philosophy of the digital literacy course with a very fitting expression “hot technology”.
“The project immediately attracted me, because it’s one of those cases in which technology becomes hot … the elderly students proved to be great life teachers and the students were efficient teachers, capable of transforming their skills and transferring them to the grandfathers and grandmothers.”
Grandma Piera defined herself as “illiterate” at the beginning of the course. She enrolled because she was convinced that she had to “keep in touch with the times and know about things that her grandchildren were interested in.” Indeed, her daughter had always kept her away from the PC “fearing she would destroy it!”
Today, Granma Piera has many stories to tell about her digital training … The tutors, for example, explained Facebook, and she immediately signed up and asked to become her daughter’s “friend”. Naturally, her daughter’s immediate reaction was “Help, my mother on Facebook, too!”
For her birthday, Piera hardly received any phone calls, but when she connected to Internet in the evening and downloaded her mail, she received many email birthday wishes … probably the least expected and most significant of an entire life …
