Technology course helps older adults thrive in the digital world

SAN ANTONIO – A regional nonprofit giving no cost technological innovation classes to more mature grownups is back again in particular person after acquiring to go on the web owing to COVID-19.

“After the two-calendar year pandemic, we have started off back in April for in-person. This is the very first in-particular person. It’s a five-7 days program that satisfies 2 times a 7 days,” Pat Jasso, an instructor stated.

On Thursday, learners graduated from a training course known as Introduction to Electronic Culture in which they understand to navigate the world wide web and discuss monetary stability, wellness and wellness, and social engagement.

“This is a way to get them a lot more comfortable and additional acquainted with the distinctive facets of the internet,” Jasso claimed.

It is a single of the quite a few programs made available by Older Grown ups Engineering Services or OATS, from AARP.

For Dolores Stevenson, she created good friends and reported she realized new things by the class.

“Now I can obtain the congressman in my district,” Stevenson stated.

For Maria Robles, she is employing the new instruments and is presently navigating on-line with her family members.

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“My granddaughter does art and went into the artwork museum and it was magnificent to see all those people points,” Robles claimed.

To find out much more about the various classes, you can simply click right here.