What is it about?
Academia has understood the wide availability and importance of non-formal education. The term “naturalistic tutoring” was developed to describe someone who has knowledge of a particular subject but is not trained in tutoring. With regard to computer training, the role of the family members, friends and community members is played, among others, by children and adolescents. What will happen if children take the role of tutor - do older adults really learn the subject matter?
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Why is it important?
The are many papers about the success and satisfaction of intergenerational learning projects but the process where young people coach senior colleagues on using technology is much less studied. What really goes on in such sessions? How teenage tutor behave and how his or her instructional techniques help the learner to acquire new skills?
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Intergenerational learning and individual tutoring in which also young people as tutors are involved forms the future of adult and continuing education. More knowledge about the quality of natural tutoring is needed.
Tiina Tambaum
Tallinna Ulikool
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This page is a summary of: Teenaged Internet tutors’ use of scaffolding with older learners, Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, October 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1477971416672808.
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