How can an elderly person master a computer?

Question

IT education

How to start teaching computer literacy to an elderly person who had no prior experience with a computer?
Please advise any videos, sites or programs.
I myself am a very bad teacher, libraries have free courses for pensioners, but now the holidays, and after the holidays, it’s not a fact that they won’t be cut because of oil dollars.
Maybe someone will advise special assemblies or shells for inexperienced people in computers?
Or maybe it's easier to buy an android tablet?
Although now, for example, they gave me a smartphone and somehow everything is not very simple with poking on the screen.

Answer 1

I did not understand the phrase about the reduction and petrodollars. Working at a computer - a production necessity?
From my own experience, I can say that it is important for an elderly person to be taught modern visual culture , which, out of habit, can shock him. I had a similar experience, but not with a computer, but with retraining from an old Soviet TV and radio to a modern music processor with a remote control. Especially for the task, I took the least fancy one and with the official Russian localization, so that the passport with the manual must be in Russian. Happened. An elderly person differs from a child in the ability to read. :-)
After mastering the music center, learning to use a DVD player and an air conditioner with a remote control did not cause any more complications and took place independently.
Habré was greatan article about the evolution of the button , it's just about that. You and I have consistently developed, along with progress, but the elderly have not, which is why the shock.

Answer 2

It depends very much on the person and his abilities and motivation, but the tablet will be the easiest and most obvious to master.

Answer 3

try to look for educational programs for children, that's the first thing I found ( tyts ). What are the learning goals? If you just turn on the computer, call on Skype, watch the news on the Internet, then it’s not difficult to explain on your fingers.