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Social networking that matters to adult learning

Here’s a little background of my current career.  I currently serve as a computer instructor at a career-focused/workplace readiness school for adults (18 - 80 yrs old) who need new skills because they lost their jobs due to a factory closing, downsizing, or because their previous employer moved outside of the United States.  I teach MS Office applications, computer and internet concepts, business & customer relations and career-search related courses (resume writing, job interview strategies).

I agree with the authors of Sparks of Genius, we have too much information but we really do not know what to do about it.  I would like to take on the challenge to help in cultivating the older generation’s imagination for today’s world of constant change.   It will be a goal for me to focus on what really matters most to adults.  Show them how they can relate and deal with this new learning generation of handling information like using it for career searching, self branding, and creating support/connections for employment rather than just posting what they had for dinner. Getting them to be curious about and be interested in this technology is the initial step to be able to let them fully understand its benefits.