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Children and adolescents evacuate the digital skills of adults, from parents to teachers, and coin a new term to describe their non-pc savvy moms. However, the true surprise is that experts are starting to pop up amongst the grandparents, too.
The opinions of the techno-agers have been collected by the 9th Annual National Report on the Condition of Children and Adolescents compiled by Eurispes and Telefono Azzurro who interviewed 6000 minors. In general, fathers are the most digitally literate and competent in the use of Internet (36%), followed by teachers (32%), older brothers (27,9%), friends (21,2%), mothers (15,5%), younger brothers (7,2%) and grandparents (5,5%).
The Report identifies the “on-line gap” that the Fondazione Mondo Digitale has been addressing for seven years with the successful Grandparents on the Internet Project.
The grandparents who participate in the activities of the Elderly Centres in their towns are back on the school desks to learn and the abc of computers and the web are being taught to them by students coordinated by a technical teacher. Many primary schools are participating in this initiative as the teachers – up to ten times younger than their students! – have proven to be very good at this. After all, as the Report points out: 47.5% of the children learned how to navigate between the age of 9 and 11.
