Older adults can register for the workshop ''Introduction to the use of ICT''

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This course is an opportunity for all older adults, and not so old, who have not yet entered today's technological society. 

Until May 9 or until available places are exhausted, registration will be open for the workshop on ''Introduction to the use of ICT'' or information and communication technologies, which will be held on Tuesdays, starting May 20 and until June 17, from 15:00 p.m. to 16:45 p.m., at the Educational Computing Center (CIE), located on the Isabel Bongard Campus of the University of La Serena. The workshop, which is part of the XXIV School for the Elderly, organized by the ULS Extension Directorate, lasts 12 pedagogical hours and will be taught by teachers Eva Toro Morán and Karina Núñez Varela, both CIE professionals. It has a unique value of $6.000 and, according to one of the speakers, its objective is to teach literacy to older adults so that they integrate into this new technological society and learn to use these tools that not only include the computer, but also digital cameras, social networks. , which are also part of the knowledge that can be acquired in subsequent workshops. 

''This course itself is to help you enter the first phase, to turn on the computer, to know the parts of it and what it can be used for. We are going to teach two fundamental tools that will help them transmit information, which is Word and the Internet, so that they begin to navigate and see sites such as newspapers, cooking sites, their bank, different platforms that can be managed and in a safe way,'' said Eva Toro, course presenter.

The invitation is for those people who wish to learn on their own initiative or out of necessity, since according to experience, students enroll for different reasons. ''Older adults arrive who have notebooks, who have the tool and don't know how to use it,'' commented the speaker, who also invited everyone to live a new experience, lose fear and connect with technology. 

For more information about this workshop, call 2204171, email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or go to the Extension Center of the University of La Serena, located at Prat 446.