IT learning environment with seniorsf manpower.
-Seniors are not as useless as people think
Heiya Shouji
6. Activities of Sendai Senior Net Club Supporters.
Many seniors who take a commercial PC class fail or give up before
completing the class
and are wasting their money. Majority of students in PC classes are young
who are trying to improve their skills for job hunting. Therefore, many
technical terms are used and throw off the seniors. Seniors are so lost
that
they cannot even come up with questions. It is only natural for them to give
up under these circumstances.
In our class, we have the ratio of two students per instructor for it is
easier for the instructor to teach few students at time. This results in
the instructor to have better understanding of the students, and
incidentally, it prevents the students from failing. We also have a few
instructors on stand by in case more instructors are needed in our classes.
We created our own textbook with many pictures for better understanding. In
addition, the instructors and the students are in the same generation, which
seems to relax the students.
All our communications are done via E-Mails. Postal mails and telephone
have never been used. We never encountered a problem of not having enough
volunteers.
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