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The students from the G.B. Grassi di Uggiate Trevano Secondary School, in the Province of Como, will become teachers on November 26, when the digital literacy courses created by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale. The Grandparents on the Internet courses are tested and proven. They have reaped a vast success in Rome and a number of pilot schools throughout Lazio, Umbria and the Marche.
Eighteen elderly students from this small town will head back to school to learn how to use a computer, create podcasts and surf the web. Their tutors will be seventh and eighth grade students assisted by the coordinating teachers Annamaria Ferrara, Marilina Bernasconi and Luca Piergiovanni.
“The students were immediately drawn to this initiative and the elders were happy to have them as tutors,” explains Prof. Piergiovanni. “The first podcast we will produce will focus on the toys of yore and we will confront two generations.”
The students have set up a PC laboratory to restore old computers and also helped prepare the computer labs where the courses will be held. The final result is 20 perfectly working PCs and 6 interactive multimedia boards with projectors. Students received donations and help thanks to an announcement they placed in a local paper. “La Provincia” provides news in the local Como dialect. Thanks to the students’ colourful advertising, the initiative was a great success.
