Promoting Digital Literacy for Adult LearnersThe Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy and Digital Promise are pleased to provide this guide to support educators, tutors, and mentors who are working with adult learners on building digital literacy skills. This guide has been developed to:
* Support coaching and mentoring for adult learners to strengthen and improve outcomes and learning retention
* Encourage users to consider the various motivations of adult learners in the design of mentoring strategies to best support them
* Integrate best practices and nuances of working with adult learners, especially in digital literacy
* Help users understand the specific skills and competencies of digital literacy, including basic, navigational, and connection skills
* Fill an existing gap in the professional development needs of adult educators, large employers, workplaces, and volunteers
