How do I teach my mum the internet?
July 4, 2011 3:51 PM Subscribe
My mother was going to take an expensive course about the significance and ways of the internet. I stopped her and said I would teach it to her. Does anyone have recommendations of good resources in any format to do that?
She is confident enough with using a computer, and does use the internet with sites she knows and trusts - mail, some shopping, that sort of thing - but lacks confidence, and doesn't know anything about the development of or ethos behind the internet, which she is particularly interested in. She's a sharp cookie, mind, so no big pictures and small words, please.
She is confident enough with using a computer, and does use the internet with sites she knows and trusts - mail, some shopping, that sort of thing - but lacks confidence, and doesn't know anything about the development of or ethos behind the internet, which she is particularly interested in. She's a sharp cookie, mind, so no big pictures and small words, please.
OU are £770 per course now? Ouch.
Are you sure this isn't going to be like teaching a family member to drive? But ok, here is a jumping-off point, and Where Wizards Stay Up Late isn't bad.
posted by Leon at 4:02 PM on July 4, 2011
Are you sure this isn't going to be like teaching a family member to drive? But ok, here is a jumping-off point, and Where Wizards Stay Up Late isn't bad.
posted by Leon at 4:02 PM on July 4, 2011
I'm guessing that (as he's Professor of the Public Understanding of Technology at the Open University) John Naughton's forthcoming book From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: What You Really Need to Know About the Internet might cover a lot of this ground.
posted by davemack at 4:21 PM on July 4, 2011
posted by davemack at 4:21 PM on July 4, 2011
MIT Open Courseware on Science, Technology and Society.
posted by Happy Dave at 2:43 AM on July 5, 2011
posted by Happy Dave at 2:43 AM on July 5, 2011
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