Digital Competences: Teaching Seniors How to Better Control Their Smartphones
Digital Competences: Teaching Seniors How to Better Control Their Smartphones

Summary/Abstract: This paper describes the results of the experiment conducted in the field of seniors’ education focused on information technologies, smartphones specifically. Main purpose of the research was to find out what kind of teaching methods are effective, comparing traditional linear learning and edutainment with elements of gamification. Study describes how seniors in the test groups as well as their educators face different aspects of learning and what are possible obstacles in this process. This is achieved by looking at amount of usable knowledge that each method was able to deliver considering motor skill, motivation and previous experience of each participant. Results in this paper describes first pilot stage of the project, proposing changes to some methods that will be implemented in later implementations of course suitable for enhancing digital media competences of elderly people at larger scale.

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