Dačice: Students "train" the elderly in smartphone work
Thanks to the joint efforts of Healthy City, Dačice Gymnasium and the local library, a unique educational course was created that connects generations.
Basic information
Name of the city/town/region: | Dačice |
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Surname, firstname: | Mašátová Petra |
Organization: | Gymnázium Dačice |
E-mail: | masatova@gymn-dacice.cz |
Phone: | 604 751 668 |
Subject: | Celoživotní vzdělávání, rekvalifikace a speciální vzdělávání cílových skupin |
Description and outputs |
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Describe the main purpose / aim of your activity / project. What were its side effects or secondary results? | The aim of the five-week SMART DEVICE course was to educate the elderly in working with a smartphone. The students of Dačice High School acted as lecturers, who thus developed their own skills in conveying information. However, the main purpose of the activity was to connect both generations. Kateřina Marková and Ilona Brabencová from Zdravé město Dačice came up with the whole idea in the spring of 2022, the Matěje Mikšíček Library represented by Veronika Kvapilová provided facilities in its modern extension and ensured the promotion of the project, and the teaching team Petra Mašátová and Karel Tobolka created the entire course concept for Dačice Gymnasium. At the beginning of September, the teachers approached eight students from the 2nd year and the 7th year with an offer to try out the role of teachers for a change. During October, eight participants - senior citizens with smartphones - signed up at the library, and it was clear that the course could begin. And so it began. On Tuesday, November 1, and then for four more Tuesdays in November, we met from two to four in the library, where the students guided the course participants step by step through the micro-world of smartphones. They devoted a lot of time to applications, how to download them to the phone and how to uninstall them, specifically the participants worked with, for example, the Záchranka, Mapy.cz or IDOS applications. They downloaded a QR code reader to their phone, tried out the camera options and photo sharing via WhatsApp, for example. Attention was also paid to fraudulent e-mails, how to detect them and how not to fall for them. A clear advantage of the course was the small number of its participants, which enabled individual access and support. Each senior had one of their own student assistants who provided them with the necessary help with the phone. This was also related to the intimate atmosphere, which became warmer and more personal with each meeting. And so, at the end, we could state that the purpose of the entire course, which was not only education, but also the mutual connection of generations, was fulfilled. |
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Is the activity related to any of your strategical document? | Health plan of the city of Dačice for the period 2021-2025 |
Were the implemented activities documented? | YES - a total of five worksheets were created for the five lessons of the course. |
Start of activity: | 01.11.2022 |
End of activity: | 29.11.2022 |
Attachment | Plakát JPG (120 kB) Pracovní list 1 PDF (831 KB) Pracovní list 2 PDF (184 KB) Pracovní list 3 PDF (451 KB) Pracovní list 4 PDF (401 KB) Pracovní list 5 PDF (1 MB) |
Budget |
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What were the financial costs of carrying out the activity? | [tis. Kč] 10 |
How was the activity funded? | z rozpočtu Města Dačice |
Detailed schedule: | CZK 6,400 reward for young trainers refreshments, library costs,… |
Recommendations and inspiration |
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What recommendations / advice can be deduced from the implementation of your activities and provided to other municipalities with a similar intention? | Suitable promotion to reach seniors. Experienced team of educators. Correct selection of young trainers. Appropriate premises and technology for training. |
Risk, obstacles and positive moments in the implementation process |
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Describe the main strengths of your activity / project during its realization? | Personal contact of the elderly with students, warm meeting atmosphere, comprehensiveness of the course (benefit for students, seniors and all involved organizations), establishment of deeper cooperation between individual organizations. |
Describe the main weaknesses of your activity / project during its realization? | Since we implemented the course for the first time, we selected students for it who do not need to develop their communication skills, empathy, etc. In some places, the technology let us down, e.g. a long wait for the application to be downloaded, if all course participants downloaded at the same time. |
During the implementation of the activities / project, did you encounter an event that fundamentally affected the implementation? | Everything went according to plan, the only complication was the low WIFI speed, see the weaknesses of the activity |
Monitoring and evaluation |
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Has the impact of the implemented activity / project been measured and evaluated in any way? | The evaluation took place in the form of a feedback questionnaire. |
Do you plan to further develop/maintain the activity/project? | We want to repeat the course in the same format with new students and seniors. It will take place from January 9 to February 6, 2024 in the Matěje Mikšíček Library in Dačice. However, the content of the course is largely based on the specific needs of its participants, so we expect that we must be flexible and adjust it according to the current situation. |
Media, promotion |
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How was the communication with the media and what were the media outcomes? | Report on DATEL television in Dač (time 4.34-8.20): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v =CMauUK938rE article on the GD website: https:// www.gymn-dacice.cz/detail/cz/chytre-na-chytra-zarizeni-aneb-studenti-uci-seniory invitation on the website of the City of Dačice: https://www.dacice.cz/mestsky-urad/zdrave-mesto-a-ma21/pozvanka-chytre-na-chytry-telefon-4278cs.html G-one.tv television report: https://g-one.tv/detail/ cz/1103-smart-on-smart-devices-2022 GD FB promotion: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid= pfbid02RZs47GMoNx6SUBt88mbrTUkriepznRWZzonEPGsED2EJN2Sn4VEgWmohQjdH4vE2l&id=100047933091455 GD IG promotion: https://www.instagram.com/p/CkeVfCssxm_/? igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== the essential promotion was directly in the Matěje Mikšíček Library, where librarians provided information directly to seniors; mobile radio, local radio, poster-decoration |
Partakers |
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Name: | Gymnázium, Dačice, Boženy Němcové 213 |
Company number or other registration data: | 608 16 929 |
Address: | B. Němcové 213/V, 380 11 Dačice |
Web: | https://www.gymn-dacice.cz |
Another partakers |
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Název: | Zdravé město Dačice |
IČO nebo jiný registrační údaj: | 002 46 476 |
Adresa: | Krajířova 27/I., 380 01 Dačice |
Web: | https://www.dacice.cz/mestsky-urad/zdrave-mesto-a-ma21/ |
Name: | Knihovna Matěje Mikšíčka Dačice |
Company number or other registration data: | 608 19 529 |
Address: | Pantočkova 89/IV., 380 01 Dačice |
Web: | https://www.mkdac.cz |