B1 – Intermediate
We are in the high technology age. Technical devices get upgraded almost every time.
However, did we consider those people still living in the past? If they have the same knowledge of technology as the people of this generation?
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- Should we consider this gap a social issue?
- Is it easy to bridge this gap between your own grandparents or older parents?
- In your household, is everyone very knowledgeable when it comes to tech gadgets and devices?
- What domestic appliances do you have that are very modern?
16 replies on “Bridging the Technology Gap”
1. Should we consider this gap a social issue?
Probably we must set focus in this situations. People that don´t know how to use social apps for communication apps, could be isolated in few years.
2. Is it easy to bridge this gap between your own grandparents or older parents?
The way I see it this don´t necessary is a gap, you must spend time with your elders and you will bridge this gap easily.
3. In your household, is everyone very knowledgeable when it comes to tech gadgets and devices?
No, in my household most of us are very knowledgeable in tech gadgets, but we must to spend time to explain new gadget to my elders and nowadays my mother wear an smartwatch.
4. What domestic appliances do you have that are very modern?
My vacuum cleaner robot is connected to internet and I can see the route it does. And I have too two smart speaker. The smartspeakers, lights and vacuum robot are connected to same routines
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1. Should we consider this gap a social issue?
Yes we should consider this gap a social issue, the world is each time more technologic and most activities have a technologic part, for instance bank operations, booking all kind of servicies, and so on.
2. Is it easy to bridge this gap between your own grandparents or older parents?
No, it’s not easy to bridge this gap, I think it depends on each one, each person is different of another one and it depends on the individual skill, although when the younger the better.
3. In your household, is everyone very knowledgeable when it comes to tech gadgets and devices?
Well, I think that in my household everyone are enough knowledgeable when it comes to tech gadgets and devices, especially the most common.
4. What domestic appliances do you have that are very modern?
In my case cells, tablets with wireless connections with domotic devices, tv, surveillnace cameras, …
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1. Should we consider this gap a social issue? Yes we should. Our society is becoming more and more techonological and people who do not know how to deal with it will be excluded.
2. Is it easy to bridge this gap between your own grandparents or older parents?
It is not easy. In my case, my parents are doctors and they need to use computers, tablets, software with ease but they don’t have the necessary knowledge and I have to help constantly. On the other hand, my grandmother is 88 years old and doesn’t need technology in her daily life, but we use a smartphone to make video calls. She doesn’t have to do anything because I just call her and the video call starts. When we are ended, she doesn’t have to hang up either. It’s a great idea for older people to be able to talk to their family and friends. My grandmother can see Mateo easily.
In your household, is everyone very knowledgeable when it comes to tech gadgets and devices?
Not in my house. I’m the one who has to help them manage them.
What domestic appliances do you have that are very modern?
I deal with all the applications normally, but I understand it is difficult for people who have not grown up using them. I believe that young children will be totally familiar with the technology since they are digital natives.
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* Totally it is a social gap or social problem. We are forgetting our elders. Most do not know how to use technology and we are not taking it into account. It is a lack of respect. In most banks they no longer attend personally. Recently in Spain there has been a proposal from an elderly person to change this, and something has been changed.
* It is very difficult to close the gap. There is too much difference between what they know and what needs to be known.
* In my house, if we are updated, at least in the most used or most normal devices.
* Ipad, iphone, smart speakers, laptops, smarttv, etc.
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1- Maybe isn’t a social problem but everytime will be a limitation for a jobs, new forms of communication o between family members.
2- It’s easy if we want. Just have a lot of paciencia jejejeje
3- My mum and my mum law learning every day about this. Smart tv, smartphones, tablets, Alexa,… in our house we have a lot of machine relation about technology.
4- Maybe isn’t very modern but my Roomba and Thermomix are my best friends for the good funcionality for my house.
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1. Should we consider this gap a social issue?
2. Is it easy to bridge this gap between your own grandparents or older parents?
I think it’s easier to bridge this gap between my parents than between my grandparents, because my parents adapt better to technological changes because they are necessary in their day to day, but my grandparents don’t need it as much, so neither They show interest in learning about new technologies.
3. In your household, is everyone very knowledgeable when it comes to tech gadgets and devices?
In the case of my parents, my mother knows more about technological devices because she herself has searched for information about it and has been interested in knowing how different devices work. Instead, my father is satisfied with what he already knows.
4. What domestic appliances do you have that are very modern?
An appliance that I think is very modern is the roomba, which is a device that cleans my house without the need to sweep, and we also have a kitchen robot that is very useful for cooking all kinds of dishes, from a dessert to any principal meal.
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1. I think it is a real problem in our society. Technology Workshops like this are a great idea to solve it and it is very helpful to our parents and grandparents.
2. In belief it is a very different gap and help for each person. There are senior citizens who want to learn to be autonomous in this new digital world and there is who don’t need, in their own thoughts, these tools.
3. In my opinion nobody is really expert in the gadget we use everyday. All our cells and tablets have a lot of more functionalities which we use and we really need these.
4. We use everyday gadgets like amazon fire tv, cells, tablets, washing machine with bluetooth notifications, and a long range of smart sensoring at home.
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1.- I think that if we can consider it a social problem
2.- it is quite complicated
3.- yes, the whole family is very well informed, my son is a computer scientist
4.- we are a family of apple fans
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