Teaching "Old Dogs" New Tricks

We as a culture tend to believe that as we age, we do not have as great a capacity to learn new things…hence the adage that “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks,”  the blog Get Seniors Online reported Thursday. But they note that many colleges have "established educational programs for older adults, and mandatory retirement has been outlawed in numerous locales because many people, in fact, have come to realize that most of us operate at full intellectual capacity until the very end of our lives."  Connect Arkansas knows that computer literacy isn't just for the youngest generation - everyone benefits when high-speed Internet access is available at home. Keep reading...