Education Helping Seniors Get Online
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Wadia Bajoka, a 71-year-old Iraqi immigrant, enjoys knitting, gardening, and baking pungent meat pies that she presents to guests in an old-fashioned display of hospitality.
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It could be the answer to grandmaÃÂÃÂs prayers: a mobile phone designed specifically for the over-65s that aims to take the fear out of technology and get the elderly connected.
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By Randy Myers, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  May 29--In hopes of making the Internet a safer place for children, concerned parents tap into a multitude of resources.
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Magazine offers tech support, tips for Internet communications.
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Primary schools and parents are to be given advice on how to help young children stay safe online.
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Savvy teachers individualize instruction using Internet and other tech tools.
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An animated cartoon of aging baby boomers gives  Newsdayâs Web traffic a big spike.
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Users under 50 are more likely to search for information about themselves on the Internet, according to a report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
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By Tammy Krikorian, The Tribune, Mesa, Ariz.  Sep. 10--The Internet gives East Valley parents plenty to worry about. Teens go online to socialize with friends and strangers, post personal photographs and even pour out their deepest secrets.
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By Keith Lawrence, Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky.  Sep. 17--It started so simply.   Joi Sigers, a Madisonville native, was home schooling her three daughters.   And she worried that they weren't getting the kind of computer training that public schools could offer.
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By Jim Stafford, The Daily Oklahoman  Feb. 13--Seated in front of a monitor in a classroom at Francis Tuttle Technology Center, 84-year-old Fred Edmonds studies a spiral-bound notebook as an instructor explains the basics of computer technology.
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Although it has been a long time coming, physicians are beginning to consider the Internet an integral part of their practice. For example, instantaneous
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By SHAUN TOLSON  For college students like 19-year-old Tessa Harvey of Boston University, a social life without AOL's instant messager (IM) would be, OMG, impossible! Then again, 55-year-old John Piekarski of East Sandwich would just as soon pick up the phone.
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For people trying to get their aging  parents on the Web so they can read e-mail and get digital  photos of the family, Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O has a message:  Don't give up.
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Web-savvy Japanese aged over 50 surf online just as often as young people do, using the Internet to arrange travel and read news, a study said Friday.
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JUDITH Murray, 91, was oldest in computer class at Tiverton, Devon, until sister Joyce, 93, joined.  (c) 2007 People, The; London. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning.
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Move over, junior. Grandma and grandpa are joining the wave in video and computer games as makers step up efforts to promote the software as brain-healthy exercises.