Reduce the "digital gap", mobile Internet free training launched in Shanghai

A group of white-haired grandparents picked up the tablet computer to "cut the watermelon", which is the scene of the mobile internet course in Guang Zhong Road Street. Yesterday, as the pilot produced the first batch of 30 "graduates", http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/33075.html "> government announced that it would be funded by the city to promote the public service curriculum, expected 2013 , free training will be provided to 20,000 senior citizens.

Even for illiterate children, tablets probably don't have to be taught, but the old are not. Canton Road in the street, teacher Zhao told reporters yesterday, even if it is some simple operation, many students must repeat under the guidance of several times, in order to grasp the initial.

This social phenomenon, which is unable to keep up with the footsteps of the digital age for reasons such as age, is known internationally as the "digital divide" or "digital gap". Shanghai has entered an aging society, how to narrow the "digital gap" is a major livelihood problem.

Guang Zhong Road Street is a community chosen to carry out pilot training. The reporter learned that the street training, the use of the city's specially prepared textbooks, thickness of nearly 60 pages, illustrated, specifically for the Android system tablet. Teaching materials from how to start, networking, has been taught to chat online, watching video, photography, shopping.

Municipal Economic and Information Committee said that the hope that through training, so that the elderly reached the "5 will": Will be networked, will search, will download, will be installed, will be used.

During the course, the class will provide a flat plate for each trainee and will be connected to a Wi-Fi signal in the classroom. Because these hardware conditions are only available in some communities, Shanghai will gradually promote the course in a gradual manner.

Yesterday, Jin Zhirong was a resident of the Garden City community, he has been able to skillfully use the "public comment" to find a hotel, on the "one Amoy" parity to buy things, in Ctrip booking. King said, the old man is afraid of the tablet computer broke up, or to delete the useful, so someone should be encouraged to say "Don't be afraid."

Teacher Zhao also said that tablets are easier to start than desktops, but for older people who don't have much desktop computers, they will have to learn to do it in four hours. Moreover, young people seldom realize that the old people's computer knowledge will be so lacking, especially the safety knowledge. To this end, she repeatedly stressed in the classroom, "even if the acquaintance in the QQ please send you a remittance, but also to confirm his true identity," or "online shopping the best choice to pay." Miss Zhao hopes that the juniors in the family can spend some time to provide some "after-school guidance" for the elderly.

Newspaper reporter Zhang Yi