As part of June Youth Month celebrations and to promote digital inclusion, the City of Johannesburg Library and Information Services is launching a competition targeting Grade 12 learners.
To participate, make a short video demonstrating how you teach your parent, grandparent or senior relative to use tablets, smartphones and computers for various purposes such as reading, doing online transactions, socialising, or surfing the internet, among other things.
The competition is part of the City of Johannesburg Library and Information Services digital literacy programmes 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.
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 internet, and ICT tools as part of social distancing and self-paced individual learning and working from home.
The 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 and used to teach other family members digital skills.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
• Send your video with your contact details and name via WhatsApp number 0812874795 OR via WeTransfer (www.wetransfer.com) to email jeff.nyoka@yahoo.com
• Videos must not be more than 4 minutes, and less than 350mb
• The competition is open to Grade 12 learners only
• Participants will confirm school names on receipt of submission confirmation
• The competition will run from 01 to 25 June 2020
• Videos can be in any official South African language
• Videos have to demonstrate how a senior citizen learns to use technology with the help of the Grade 12 learner
• Videos must be audible and visually clear
• The seven winners will be announced on 30 June 2020
Issued by:
Cllr Margaret Arnolds
MMC for Community Development
City of Joburg
