Not long ago, older folks were ridiculed as being technologically too clueless to program the clock on a DVD player. Now people 55 and older are the fastest-growing group adopting social media: more than 43 percent of Americans 65 and older are using Facebook and its cohorts, compared to just 1 percent in 2008. The...
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How to reach “Baby Boomers”
People over 55 don’t think of themselves as being old and don’t like to be reminded that they are. Use the term “Baby Boomers” to address the “new old.” The word “seniors” is now more often applied to people in their early to mid-70s and “elders” to people in their late 70s and beyond. Don’t...
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Digital learning’s golden era
If you can recall the Golden Era of comic books or remember a time before anti-smoking laws all but obliterated matchbook advertising, you may have been tempted to learn to draw at home. The Famous Artists School was, perhaps, the most well known of all the correspondence schools. It offered an art and illustration course...
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Digital Learning Trendposts
• Professional education courses — Teacher re-certification programs and professional development courses will be made available in record numbers.• Summer school — Rather than sit in a brick-and-mortar classroom, high schoolers who need to re-take a class to recover credit can take the course online, whether through their local school or via an accredited online...
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Our Top Trends for 2013, revisited
When we launched a series of improvements to our Trends Journal last summer, we promised you we would hold ourselves accountable for the forecasts we made and the quality and accuracy of our analyses. Here’s a look back at what we forecast a year ago and how we did. — Trends Research Institute staff The...
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Grim trend lines with glimmers of opportunity
This is my 34th year of forecasting trends. For the past dozen or so, when analyzing the trends that would shape much of the year ahead, I would say, “How sad, the future looks less promising than the past.” Unfortunately, I’ve been right. Each year ends worse than the year before. And I’m not alone. Along with indisputable...
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Benghazi Jane
From what I understand , “Benghazi Jane” (Hillary) could have,but didn’t, run to the defense of her friend,the Libyan Ambassador, and 3 others,resulting in their murders. How can we trust her to defend Americans, if she’s elected President?? As I see it, she has had remarkably undistinguished accomplishments as Secretary of State. BTW, I love...
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Letter to the editor from joseph turcin
The following letter to the editor form has been submitted: hcv: testing first name: joseph last name: turcin address: 13050 birchwoodroad city: drummond state: wisconsin zip: 54832 phone: 7157396790 email: jptur@cheqnet.net letter: Hi Is gerald still on the air each evening? Can not get him.At times an epasoad from april 23 comes on. you have...
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Letter to the editor from Robert Carpenter
The following letter to the editor form has been submitted: hcv: testing first name: Robert last name: Carpenter address: 203 Deep Creek Dr city: Seaford state: DE zip: 19973 phone: 302 628 1556 email: bobcarpenter44@comcast.net letter: You new website is a bust. Your latest trends journal TV segment is for April 23rd. When is your...