Difficulty Medium
Duration 60 minutes
Type of activity Main activities
Season Any
Occasion Any
Suitability Physically fit
Locations Indoor
Tools
smartphone
flipchart
Goal
The result of this activity is cooperation between seniors and children when children teach seniors new technologies. The benefit is an intergenerational exchange of experience from the children to the elderly.
Intergenerational benefits
Understanding and relationship building
Understanding and relationship building
The activity promotes the understanding and appreciation of the attitudes, opinions, and experiences which different generations bring to the relationships, understanding and avoiding generational stereotypes and fostering tolerance of different lifestyles and an appreciation for cultural heritages, traditions and histories.
Intergenerational learning and skill sharing
Intergenerational learning and skill sharing
The activity promotes learning and skill sharing among younger and older generations. It involves the sharing of positive resources that the young and old have to offer each other, especially the experience with novelties of modern times and valuable life lessons as well as cultural and familiar traditions.
Health and wellbeing
Health and wellbeing
The activity promotes physical and mental well-being. It has a positive impact on the quality of life (feeling of self-worth and a reduction in loneliness and isolation, promotion of physical and cognitive activity).
Personal impact
Personal impact
Developing soft skills (like empathy, confidence, communication abilities, learning skills) and developing their own strengths and talents.
Cognitive skills
Cognitive skills
Supporting mental / brain-based skills we need to do anything from the simplest to the most complex tasks:perception, attention, memory, motor skills, language, visual and spatial processing, executive functions.
Community involvement
Community involvement
The activity increases confidence and involvement within the community. It offers a starting point that could have a positive impact within the community.
Step by Step
- Offer smartphone lessons to seniors in retirement home or in town hall.
- Reach young people in schools who are willing to help seniors with smartphone useage.
- Create pairs teenager/senior.
- Seniors prepare and ask questions about their smartphones.
- Juniors answer questions by explaining on flipchart.
- Seniors are practicing new knowledge on their phones.
- Juniors help and explain again if needed.
- At the end of the session all questions are summarized and answered
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