Survey adult learners about devices and home access before choosing instructional technology¶

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Description¶

Briya's Digital Literacy Coordinator surveys adult learners each year "to determine the access and devices they have at home," finding most have a tablet and/or smartphone. Because "Experience on the actual devices or types of devices parents will use at home with their children is critical to the transfer of skills," the program uses those device types in its curriculum. The takeaways advise surveying learners since "integrating technology does not necessarily require purchasing devices for all learners."

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• A yearly survey mechanism to learn what devices and access learners have at home

Constraints¶

• Learners may have devices but still lack support when something goes wrong, so purchasing needs are low but support needs remain

Target Learners¶

• adult learners, including underserved populations

Target Learning Goals¶

• transfer of digital skills to home and daily life

Related Strategies¶

• Scaffold adults from beginning users to confident digital citizens with hands-on, competency-based classes and layered teacher support
• Consider Socio-Cultural Factors
• Technology Accessibility

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Technology and Family Literacy Case Study: Briya. (2016). Digital Promise. https://www.digitalpromise.org