Strictly Come Surfing: Pupils teach pensioners about web

Tweeting and using Facebook may be everyday activities for most people but for some elderly users the internet is still uncharted territory.

Students from Shorefields Technology College in Liverpool have helped a group of over-65s about using the internet as part of First Click - a BBC initiative to help get senior citizens on line.

One of the college's students, Monique, aged 12, reports for the BBC's School Report, on how she and her fellow pupils were also taught a thing or two.

On the BBC morning news was an article talking about how young people had teamed up with a group of pensioners to help show hem how to access the internet.

The group of pensioners had little or no knowledge of the internet or how to use it and the young people used their interest in dancing as a bridge to enable them to learn how utilise the possibilities of the internet.

But the learning did not stop there as both parties gained something out of this new partnership as the pensioners taught the youths how to foxtrot and quickstep.

This serves as an excellent example, I think, of how the partnership between young and old can be beneficial for both as each have things that they are able to share with the other.

This raises some interesting questions;