英文外刊 带领老年人（进入数字时代）

Let"s go. Let"s go. We" re gonna do the actually connect to a Wi-Fi, and you want to hit DC Wi-Fi.

来吧，来吧，我们将连上无线网络,并且连上DC Wi-Fi。

Adrienne Sutton is a computer science teacher.

艾德丽.安萨顿是一名计算机科学教师。

Some days he has to remind his students how to turn on their laptops.

有时他不得不提醒学生们如何打开他们的笔记本电脑。

I had a young lady who was 99 years old and she was by far like the VIP the best person in the class, she got tons of stickers. Almost 99.

我有一位年轻的女学生，99岁的她是目前班里最好的学生，她有很多贴纸。差不多99岁了。

He is helping these students over 65 get engaged in a more digital connected life.

安萨顿正帮助这些65岁以上的学生参与到数字生活中。

I"m trying to. I mean, I pick up pretty well,but I"m trying to learn as much as I can in this first session.

我在努力，我的意思是，我学得很好,但我在第一节课里尽可能多地学习。

Alice Burns is 8o. She"s used to reading newspapers but is learning to access the same information with a click of a button.

爱丽丝.伯恩斯80岁，她已经习惯了看报纸，但现在正在学习通过点击鼠标来获取相同的信息。

But it"s a steep learning curve.

但这是一个艰难的学习过程。

I don"... it"s hard, it"s kind of complicated,well, it"s the same, it"s hard. I think it"s hard.

我不会，这很难，这有点复杂，这是一样的,很难。我觉得很难。

But I thought as seniors would be harder for us than it would be for the younger generation.

但我认为，老年人会比年轻一代学习起来更困难。

I have a granddaughter and she taught me how to use a smartphone, my granddaughter.

我有一个孙女，她教我如何使用智能手机，我的孙女。

The scenes are engaged they understand that they need these smart phones, they like the benefits of the smart phones, like Lyft and Uber.

他们知道自己需要这些智能手机，他们喜欢智能手机的好处，比如打车软件Lyft和Uber。

And now this like Safeway and W almart does food deliveries and it even used to 3/1 the dc-3 one app on their phone as well,

现在，像西夫韦和沃尔玛等这样的售商也提供食品配送服务，甚至过去他们的手机上也有DC311软件,

so they could you know send city complaints whether it"s like a dirty alley or a broken stop sign or something like that.

所以他们可以用这一软件向市政府投诉, 不管是肮脏的小巷还是坏掉的停车标志等等。

Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser taught her mom and dad how to handle their gadgets.

华盛顿特区市长穆丽尔.鲍泽教她的父母如何使用电子设备。

Now she champions computer literacy.

现在她提倡人们通晓计算机。

We see it as a tool to allow seniors to age in place, my folks for example,if they didn"t have access to order food online, it would be a lot more difficult for them to enjoy life in their own home.

我们认为计算机是一种工具，可以让老年人舒服地变老，比如我的家人，如果他们不能在网上订购食物，就很难自己在家里享受生活。

Oh Excel, I need that, I need that Excel course.

Excel,我需要这个，我需要这个Excel课程。

The classes are not just for retirees. The youngest graduate in this class was 21 years old.

这些课程不为退休人员开设，这个班最年轻的毕业生是21岁。

She learned how to use Microsoft products,successfully passed the certification exams and got a new job.

她学会了如何使用微软的产品，顺利通过了认证考试,并找到了一份新工作。

And so it"s just been going from there and recently just as a last week, I just completed the Microsoft Office Outlook.

从那以后一直到最近，就在上周，我刚刚完成了Microsoft Offce Outlook的学习。

These students have proven you can get new knowledge regardless of your age.

这些学生已经证明，无论年龄几何，你都可以学到新知识。

Just a bit of patience hard work and of course desire to explore and you can achieve anything.

只要有耐心，努力学习，当然还有探索的欲望，你就能取得做成一切。

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