Student mentors help seniors share technology

Once she got online, Annette turned into something of a party animal. She was on top of all the party invites and quickly joined the online dating scene. The best part: She’s 76 years old. Even so, Annette is the youngest of a group of seniors who challenged themselves to learn about technology and become […]

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Feature: HIS Radio

His Radio features your favourite Contemporary Christian Music and has been serving the Carolinas and Georgia for almost 30 years. Listen to Radio Personality & Endurance Athlete Rob Dempsey discuss the Cyber-Seniors documentary.

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Grandma might be friending you on Facebook

A new documentary all the way from Canada potentially has the opportunity to make a generational impact on Polk County’s small town seniors.

The Stromsburg Civic Center and Polk County Senior Services have teamed up to bring “Cyber-Seniors — Connecting Generations,” a comical, touching, frustrating, educational documentary about bridging the technology gap between senior citizens and seniors in high school.

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‘Cyber-Seniors’ movie will kick off Polk County effort

STROMSBURG, Neb. — Polk County Senior Services will be kicking off its new program, the Cyber-Senior project, by showing the documentary “Cyber-Seniors — Connecting Generations” on Tuesday at the Stromsburg Civic Center. The film chronicles the journey of a group of senior citizens who learn to navigate their way through the digital world with the […]

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What Happens When Tech-Savvy Teens Help Cyber seniors?

In school settings, teachers are older than students. Thus, there is always much discussion around the concept of what’s changed since the teacher was the student’s age, and what that means for education. We look at generational differences between multiple generations. We talk about the future of education: Is it mostly STEM based? Is it all digital? Sometimes, it is […]

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Cyber-Seniors Review

“A lot of the credit for the film’s more humorous moments working as well as they do (including a climactic showdown of seniors vying for a prize for making the best YouTube video that’s priceless), is that young Cassaday shows her older subjects as people who have lived their lives to the fullest and have the same concerns and regrets and pleasant memories that everyone will have once they get older. “

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Cyber-Seniors: Interview with director Saffron Cassaday

Linda Sjostrom interviews Director and Editor Saffron Cassaday about her film Cyber-Seniors which plays at the 2014 Victoria Film Festival. Here’s what Linda had to say about the film: “Cyber-Seniors is a documentary that follows two groups of people: seniors who are trying their hand at navigating the internet, and the young mentors who are helping them […]

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Helping seniors surf the web

A documentary at the Victoria Film Fesitval captures teenagers teaching seniors how to navigate the internet. Listen to the interview at CBC.ca.

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Cyber-Seniors CBC

To listen to the audio recording go to CBC.ca

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Des ados enseignent les nouvelles technologies aux ainés

To listen to the radio show in french visit ICI.Radio-Canada.

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