SLOW LEARNING Developing the skills of IT trainers of older people

The main problem that IT educators are facing is that they don’t have the needed skills and competences to educate older people in new technology. Educators of elderly, and specifically IT educators, need knowledge of older and contemporary image of old age in society. On one hand they are aware that older people are not all the same, that they are very different, that they are more different from each other than different members of the younger generations, but on the other hand they also know, they lack knowledge both in theory and practice on better working methods with this target group. Lot of teachers are more pedagogues (school system of teaching) than andragogists with merely basic knowledge on working methods for seniors.
Primary target group of the project are adult educators, teachers, mentors, trainers, professionals in IT. Secondary target group are seniors.