Colleges, ‘Digital Natives’ Help Elders Learn New Tech
(TNS) technology became a necessity for Linda Brandon when she owned Linda's Music in Decatur. "In the mid to late 1990s we were like, 'Okay, we have to do this, we have to get a computer' and we built one," said Brandon, who closed her store in 2020 and retired. "You couldn't just go to Best Buy and buy one like you do today." She recalls how she and Hugh Reeves were "kind of lost". But through trial and error, they found out. Today, educators often refer to students as “digital natives” because they have never known a world without computers, cell phones and iPads. Even a young child seems to know instinctively how to use them. But people who grew up with rotary phones, not cable TV, and before computers were in every home and office, had to learn to use them, and some still feel uncomfortable. In a world where even ordering from a fast food restaurant requires th