The importance and benefits of intergeneraltional ICT learning

Intrapersonal Level

• The junior can experience the feeling of being useful and helpful
• The senior can experience the acquaintance of new competences

Interpersonal Level

• Primal benefits are ICT skills for the senior and life stories for the junior
• Secondary benefit is consolidation and deepening of the relationship and possible motivation for other activities

Family Level

• Members of different generations spend some efficient and creative time together
• The family history will be conserved for next generations

Society Level

• Learning from a family member composes of many emotional elements which can facilitate the learning process and be a source of additional knowledge to the facts learned at school
• This way of making and preserving stories is an important way how to retain different points of view or different interpretations of a certain historical period as a source for critical discussion and broadening of one’s perspective

Project Duration: 2008 – 2010