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The Portage Learning and Literacy Centre will hold iPhone and smartphone seminars for seniors in January.<\/p>\n

“I plan on not so much removing the mystery but removing the fear of pressing the wrong button,” said Holly Asham, a technology literacy teacher at the centre who will lead the seminars.<\/p>\n

Asham said the program will focus on basic introductions to phones and computers, with an emphasis on transferable skills that seniors can use to across many platforms.<\/p>\n

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“These are all separate things,” Asham said. “You know, this is a drill and this is a grinder and this is a screwdriver. We want to connect all of those.”<\/p>\n

Asham said she believes in lifelong learning and that removing the stigma around technology for seniors didn’t grow up with it will give them another avenue of communication.<\/p>\n

Asham recalled a student of hers whose nephew showed her how to download photos from her phone onto her computer.<\/p>\n

“Unless someone actually shows (seniors) and says, ‘Hey, this is OK to do,’ then they’re not doing it,” Asham said.<\/p>\n

The program is open to12  — a relatively small number due to COVID-19 restrictions.<\/p>\n

“Seniors are a part of the community,” Asham said. “So they need to be included.”<\/p>\n

For more information, call 204-857-6304, visit www.pllc.ca or email info@pllc.ca<\/a><\/p>

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