Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Winter 2000

Volume

5

Issue

1

Publication Title

The Generations United Newsletter

First Page

25

Last Page

27

Abstract

It isn't a coincidence that older people are flocking to learn about computers, the Internet, and E-mail. It's a part of the service-learning movement that has caught America's imagination. Why are older people, technology and service learning such natural partners? Ask a middle-school student who is teaching a computer class to older people. "Some senior citizens are afraid of computers in the beginning," he says, "But we know how to make them more comfortable." That confidence is the hallmark of service-learning programs across the country involving elementary, middle school, high school, and college campuses. William Butler Yeats wrote that ':Education isn't the filling of a pail, it is the lighting of a fire." Service learning leaves students fired up as they become active learners, solving real-world problems through community involvement.

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