The City’s Library and Information Services directorate has launched a competition targeting Grade 12 learners to promote digital inclusion during June, Youth Month.
To participate, record a short video demonstrating how you teach your parent, grandparent or senior relative to use tablets, smartphones and computers for reading, doing online transactions, socialising, or surfing the internet, among other things.
The competition is part of the City’s digital literacy programme to promote collaboration and harmony within family units, using technology at home.
"Senior citizens play a huge role in raising children and continue to raise grandchildren in most households. They have introduced youth to various opportunities and ensured that their children are not only safe and healthy but are also educated and skilled in various ways," says Margaret Arnolds, the MMC for Community Development.
Arnolds says the concept of distance learning is most likely to continue and there will be an increase in the use of ICTs at home.
"This period of transitioning to a “new normal” requires libraries to play a bigger role in assisting communities to use the internet, and ICT tools as part of social distancing and self-paced individual learning and working from home," she explains.
Winners of the seven best videos will each receive a tablet sponsored by the MTN Foundation.
"The tablets will make a difference in learners’ e-learning at-home experience and used to teach other family members digital skills," the MMC says.
How to participate:
• Send your video with your contact details and name via WhatsApp number 081 287 4795 OR via WeTransfer (www.wetransfer.com); alternatively, email jeff.nyoka@yahoo.com
• Videos must not be more than 4 minutes in length, and less than 350mb
• Participants will confirm school names on receipt of the submission confirmation
• The competition runs until 25 June 2020
• Videos can be in any official South African language and must be audible and visually clear
• The competition is open to Grade 12 learners only
Videos have to demonstrate how a senior citizen learns to use technology with the help of the Grade 12 learner. The seven winners will be announced on Tuesday, 30 June 2020.
