{"id":1486,"date":"2019-05-22T13:58:22","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T19:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/?p=1486"},"modified":"2019-05-22T13:58:53","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T19:58:53","slug":"youth-teaching-adults-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/2019\/05\/22\/youth-teaching-adults-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth Teaching Adults Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Many of you already have a great way of addressing the digital divide and providing intergenerational programs, but here is another program idea if you aren\u2019t already doing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Youth Teaching Adults<\/a> is a program designed for youth volunteer-tutors to teach digital literacy skills to adult learners in a one-on-one workshop environment.\u00a0\u00a0Here are some tips if you are thinking about implementing something in your library: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Is this a need? Do you have willing volunteers?
    1. Contact you senior patrons, ask them to ask their non-library-using friends. Ask members of senior centers, lodges, homes etc.<\/li>
    2. Contact high schools, youth centers, volunteer centers, teen library patrons. <\/li><\/ol><\/li>
    3. Create a schedule: determine how often they would like to meet (once a month?) maybe start with a onetime only, and based on feedback gage your repetition.<\/li>
    4. Collect registrations via Wufoo or in library (ask perceived knowledge, ask what devices people use, ask what seniors would like to learn).<\/li>
    5. Based on registration and knowledge, pair teens and seniors (pairings can change depending on the type of device\/knowledge being shared).<\/li>
    6. Send out reminders a few days before the program, invite participants to bring their own devices.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Day of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      1. Make introductions between pairs, ensure they have all the equipment needed to go over the topic.<\/li>
      2. It might be useful to have reminder cards to start off the topics.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Many of you already have a great way of addressing the digital divide and providing intergenerational programs, but here is another program idea if you aren\u2019t already doing it. Youth Teaching Adults is a program designed for youth volunteer-tutors to teach digital literacy skills to adult learners in a one-on-one …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1487,"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions\/1487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}