Minutes of the Conscious Senior e-Citizen project in Paris
10 and 11th of March 2011
Each participant
describes the actions taken in the last months in his country
Turkey
Two courses
for seniors were organized, each twice a week for 2 hours each time, given by the regular teachers of the association
-
Elementary
level : 10 participants for 6 weeks ( (
each week once evening and one weekend course
-
Advanced
level : 6 participants for 5 weeks +
teachers learners at home to help
install computer with internet connection
The participants
were mostly retired teachers from the association.
Among the
subjects of the courses : email, facebook,
health oriented applications.
These
courses were the first given for seniors in Istanbul.
The
students are waiting for the “Olympic Games Quiz” to make evaluation and get a
diploma.
Courses
were free of charge for the participants.
Spain
Cybervoluntarios is now working together with the Democratic
Union of Senior Citizens of Spain, which
counts a lot of pensioners among her members..
The
association gives a lot of courses all over Spain.
The newest
course is a workshop about mobile phones, which lasts 2 hours
and were the generalities about mobile phones are explained (without
going into specific kinds of phones).
There is
one teacher for 2 or maximum 3 seniors.
In average : 8 people and 4 teachers in the workshop
Seniors
prefer short modules/workshops to long courses.
Another example
is a workshop about GMAIL (2 hours course).
All
teachers are volunteers.
Czech Republic
One course
was realized and ended by the end of November 10.
It lasted 5
weeks , 4 hours/week = total of 20 hours.
Among the subjects
taught : email,
skype,…
It was offered , nearly for
free , to 6 participants who were (otherwise) regular students of an English
course.
They had to
rent a PC room because seniors prefer courses in the afternoon at the time
where the rooms of the school are already used.
The
students paid only a symbolic financial contribution (50 euros),
whereas ITC-Training had to pay for the room and for the teacher.
The
national employment agency will not give funding for courses for retired seniors,
only for people who are in age to work.
The
students actively use what they learned and want to continue and agree to pay
for the courses.
Greece
Here also
the government is not interested in paying courses for seniors as this part of
the population is not in the “priorities”.
The
pensioners have seen their pension decrease 40 % of the value.
So non-profit associations
have to take care of the seniors.
Greece has opened some day care centers for
seniors and DIMITRA proposes in these
places its “Story Telling Project” (DIGEM = DigEm is
an innovative digital empowering project that uses a creative approach to
teaching basic ICT skills and provides an effective entry route for learners,
who are disengaged with the learning process, or who are unconfident with new
technologies) in the form of digital
story-telling workshops during 6 days with 3 hours a day.
At the end
of the workshop the seniors have realized a short film, which serves as
testimony about their life.
It begins
with ice-breaking games among the participants to overcome the first
fears.
They learn
how to use a text editor, how to scan pictures and how to look up specific
topics on the Web.
They learn
how to use MovieMaker and will realize la little film
of 3 minutes.
If the
students want to continue learning they can go to normal courses
, where they have to pay.
DIMITRA
tries to negotiate with municipality in terms of organizing 10 courses ( in the morning – for unemployed
or retired seniors) , with each 12 participants, paying each 100 euros.
France
Students
mostly pay for the regular courses , but of
course it is “no-profit” .
A new
experimental workshop has been organized (with the funding of the government )about “Interactive tablets” like Ipads or Galaxy tablets.
The
questions have been discussed in English.
Each
country will translate each for the students.
The quizzes
in all languages will be presented on the website.
It will be called
EPIM (European Passport for Internet and Multimedia).
The Turkish
partners will prepare a
model for the diploma.
Partners will
add some words in their languages.
The Czech partners will send the manual for students
in English and each partner will translate it in the local language.
Everything will
be uploaded on the website of the project (as output of the project).
It has to be
done for latest the end of September but we should finish it before so that partners
can send it earlier to their agency.
Tolga will
send the common parts before the next meeting so that we can discuss it in Prague
– as well as the text to put on the EST database.
6 and 7 of June
in Prague .