How Do Adults Acquire Digital Literacy Skills? Exploring Tutor-facilitated Learning and Teaching Within Community Based Organizations

Authors

Jill Castek, Portland State UniversityFollow
Gloria Jacobs, Portland State UniversityFollow
Stephen Reder, Portland State UniversityFollow
Drew Pizzolato, Portland State UniversityFollow
Elizabeth Withers, Portland State UniversityFollow
Kimberly D. Pendell, Portland State UniversityFollow

Sponsor

This research was supported by a National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to Portland State University (LG-06-11-0340-11).

Document Type

Presentation

Publication Date

4-5-2014

Subjects

Information literacy, Computer-assisted instruction, Digital divide -- United States -- Case studies

Abstract

This paper examined the learning and teaching strategies for working with economically vulnerable, under-served, and high-need adult populations across different learning environments to facilitate their digital literacy acquisition. Initial analysis has identified unique and important insights about the learning processes of these under-served populations who come to public access computer labs in libraries and community organizations for tutor-facilitated support.

Description

Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association, Philadelphia, PA.

The PowerPoint presentation is available below in the Additional Files section below

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/14770

Recommended Citation

Castek, J., Reder, S., Withers, E., Pizzolato, D., Pendell, K., & Jacobs, G. (2014, April). How do adults acquire digital literacy skills? Exploring tutor-facilitated learning and teaching within community-based organizations. Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association, Philadelphia, PA.