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For and from the participants (Thank you Basia), here are a few of the shared ideas:

Working with computer illiterate adults:

APPROACH 1: How to work on personal development and gain/improve computer skills at the same time

• Teaching/learning resources to be provided e.g. laptops, computer lab, etc.
• Start from the basics e.g. turning on and off, clicking (adjusting to the mouse), creating simple graphics, etc.
• Using tools:

o   First create simple word doc., excel spreadsheet, paint file, etc.; next help learners create their PDs using those programmes e.g. bucket list created in word, avatar drawn in paint, etc.

o   Playing computer games

o   Alice’s Trial –  can be done via skype – learners get used to chatting, talking over skype, communicating over longer distances

APPROACH 2: How to adapt online tool to those computer illiterate

• Use available games to practice basic literacy and numeracy skills e.g.

o   Monopoly – useful in learning how to manage own budget and make most of it

o   Quircle – learning how to make most potential of the available pieces, creating strategies

o   Scrabble or bananagram/applegram/peargram – creating new words out of available letters, practising spelling

o   Using cubes

• Story cubes – with verbs, objects, places, etc. used in making sentences
• Question cubes – attach a question to each side of the cube; these could refer to e.g. pax experience, story that had just been read, etc. Next, have pax toss the die and let them answer a given question

o   Once upon a time – brilliant storytelling game which helps in practising creativity and learning new vocabulary at the same time