The Digital Divide Between the Young and Old why there are so few seniors online, and why this needs to change image by _Davo_ a digital flipbook by @EmilyMarushko
An examination of why there are so few seniors online, and why this needs to change. Also poses some suggestions for growing the digital literacy of seniors.
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1. The Digital DivideBetween theYoung and Oldwhy there are
sofew seniorsonline, and whythis needs tochangeimage by _Davo_a
digital flipbook by @EmilyMarushko
2. can old dogs really be taughtimage by Omega Mannew digital
tricks?
3. dontseniorsdeserveto retire inpeace?image by
girl-meets-art
4. image by Old Shoe Womanis creating Internet literate
seniors...possible?worth-while?
5. seniorsare not immuneto ourincreasinglydigitized worldImage
by Joe ShlabotnikRegardless oftheir affinityfor technology,
6. image from Kingstonist.com, source 1evensimpletasks like
findingphone numbersfor localbusinesses maysoon requireWeb
access
7. image by cavale, source 1the assumption is that youre
onlineWhen it comes togovernmentprograms, financial
andinsurancestatements, healthinformation or
discountcoupons...
8. image by Raumwahrnehmung, source 1
9. amongtheolderold,thoseover77,onlyaboutathirdareonlineyet
thats thecohort most likelyto becomeisolatedbyphysicallimitations,
poortransportation andthe loss of socialconnectionsImage by
christopher_brown, source 1
10. image by My names axel, source 1the group, inotherwords,
whomightparticularlybenefit frombeing able tointeract with theworld
digitallyfor everythingfrom banking andorderinggroceries to
e-mailing farawayfriends
11. education, income, age and locationwere all linked with
significant disparityin peoplesdigital competencyimage by
Neighborhood Centers, source 2
12. for Canadians 55 and older, incomewas a moreimportant
predictor of Internet proficiencyImage by macattck, source 2
13. image by GWSA, source 1in 2000, only 13 percent of seniors
wereonlinelast year...a majority (53percent)...of people overage 65
used the Internetprogress
14. image by GWSA, source 1in 2000, only 13 percent of seniors
wereonlinelast year...a majority (53percent) of people overage 65
used the Internetprogress...?anemic number compared to the rest of
theadult population, more than 80 percent ofwhom use the
Internetback in 2000, more than 40 percent of thegroup just behind
them, those aged 50 to64, were online. Maybe, 13 years later,
thepeople online just got oldermaybe we havent made as much
progress as it appears
15. seniors are theones whoveprobably fallenbehind themost,
both in termsof access and skillimage by GWSA, source 2
16. image by zen, source 3the main reasonpeople dont goonline
is because......they dontthink theInternet isrelevant tothem.
17. image by Jordan Brock, source 3with messages thatget at the
relevanceof the Internet, howyou can dosomething, or dosomething
better thatyou may alreadydo, by being onlineTo get seniorsonline,
encourage them...
18. image by Old Shoe Woman, source 1if a person isopen and
interestedand theres something on therethats worth the trouble
likevideo of family members or theability to Skype with familythey
canlearn to use acomputer ora tablet
19. we cant simply assume that accessequates with efficient or
beneficial use ofthe Internet... You need to combineaccess with
appropriate digitalliteracy to really take advantageimage by CSDs
Learning Division, source 2crossing thedigital dividedemands
amulti-facetedapproach
20. image by dkuropatwa, source 1A number of programs have
triedto address this disparity, but theytend to be small-scale and
local
21. we want faster adoption. Itsgoing to take big
nationalorganizations with deeppockets...to undertake abigger,
faster and moreeffective effort than ourcurrent
piecemealapproachimage by jaygoldman, source 1
22. image by arnybo, source 1tablets are cheaper than most
desktops and laptops
23. image by Oldwoodchuck, source 1Just within2012...among
those over age 77, tabletownership...jumped to 12 percent from3
percent
24. image by keoshi
25. but it will take alarge, conscious, andorganized effort
toachieve real progressimage by Andrew Olanoff
26. ImagesLicensed under Creative Commons andsourced from
Flickr
27. Sources1. Online Habits Coming Slowly to OlderAdults. By
Paula Span. New York Times.April 2013.2. Digital Divide Persists in
Canada, both inAccess and Internet Fluency. By Misty
Harris.Financial Post. 2013 March.3. A Campaign to Help People
Learn InternetSkills. By Jane Levere. New York Times.2013
March.