Visualize a community centre that serves as a hub for a digital revolution—a place where seniors can visit to receive assistance and where digital care workers zip out on mopeds to aid those who can’t.
Accessibility means creating websites so people can use them without restriction. It is an important part of sustainable, hygienic marketing.
Who is a “senior” and who is not? Our access to technology is dependant on other demographics than age. Usually it’s about money, education, and access to the internet.
Building things, allows us to think about them. Thinking about things, allows us to understand them. It can save us money, give us a sense of gratification and value, and it can also give us another perspective on what others do.
We used to use tools for a specific purpose, retrieving them individually from our toolbox or tool shed. Our mobile devices now offer us everything we require in one tool – information gathering, entertainment, problem solving, security, communication, and ultimately – gratification and self-confidence.
For some of my friends, Home Schooling was always a reality. For many of us, digital teaching aids were a way of supplementing what we considered below average teaching. This is not to criticise our teachers most of whom are amazing. It is simply an answer to the way this generation of children learn and live. Digital Natives are simply born multi-taskers.