Roosevelt Island High School Student Volunteer Helps Close The Technology Gap Across Generations - Teaches Email, Facebook, Twitter and Other Social Media Skills

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February 5 NY Times reports on a group of high school student volunteers teaching social media skills across the generations. One of those high school students was a Roosevelt Island resident. According to the NY Times:

Last month, in a computer lab at Baruch College in Manhattan, a group of high school students became teachers for a morning. Their pupils were adults hungry to learn about Gmail, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook.

“I’m going to get on Facebook,” Jeanne Pearson-Gray, 65, said excitedly as Mohamed Sall, 16, stood over her shoulder with his hand on the computer mouse. ...

... Mohamed, who lives on Roosevelt Island, was a volunteer, along with other members of the National Honor Society at his school, in a workshop called Closing the Technology Gap. It was organized in part by the Community Service Society of New York, one of the seven agencies supported by The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund. 

In sharing his Internet know-how, Mohamed said he understood that what might seem basic to him might be harder to grasp for someone who had not grown up with the technology....

Click here for the entire NY Times article.

The Roosevelt Island Public Library is also providing a free introduction to email on Friday, February 10 and introduction to Microsoft Word on Friday, February 17.