Resources

DigLit Adult Education Edtech Routine Template: This template supports programs in creating an edtech routine to integrate digital skills into foundational skills instruction.

DigLit Needs Assessment: Designed for programs to identify, reflect on, and assess strengths, gaps, and needs related to integrating technology and building staff and student digital skills.

DigLit Action Plan Tool: Building off the DigLit Needs Assessment, this tool supports programs in identifying priorities, goals, and action steps related to integrating technology and building staff and student digital skills.

EdTech Integration Strategy Toolkit | World Education: This toolkit is designed to help educators build effective strategies for instruction that integrate technology while developing learners’ digital skills.

Digital Skills Library | World Education: An open repository of free learning resources designed to help all adult learners develop the digital skills needed to achieve their personal, civic, educational, and career goals.

SkillBlox | World Education: A free platform that allows instructors to create lessons and resource sets by drawing from a library of free and open educational resources on digital literacy.

Digital Access & Resilience in Texas (DART): A Foundational Digital Literacy ESL Curriculum | Texas Center for the Advancement of Literacy and Learning (TCALL): The DART curriculum integrates beginning English language learning with foundational digital skills.

Digital Literacy Toolkit | Texas Distance Education Professional Development Center & Call Center: A toolkit with student and instructor resources on learning and teaching essential digital skills.

Technology Classes & Workshops | Denver Public Library: Lesson plans and handouts for teaching a variety of digital skills. Some materials are available in Spanish.

Idaho Digital Skills Tools and Resources for Trainers | Idaho Commission for Libraries: Materials for teaching basic digital skills and online safety, as well as other digital skills training resources.

Northstar Digital Literacy | Literacy Minnesota: Educational materials for self-guided online learning, one-on-one digital navigation, and instructor-led classes.

BRIDGES Digital Resilience Toolkit | World Education: BRIDGES defines the skills needed to pursue personal, educational, and career goals in an increasingly digital world.

Criteria for Evaluating Workforce EdTech Tools | World Education: Key questions to evaluate the pros and cons of an edtech tool in the context of in improving education, employment, or economic mobility outcomes for adults developing foundational skills.

CREATE Edtech Technical Assistance Library | CREATE Adult Skills Network: Guidance for practitioners and adult education leaders on integrating or advancing instruction through edtech and other digital technology. Resources include technology integration and digital skills frameworks, technology adoption checklists, webinars highlighting promising resources and strategies, and technology enhanced lesson plans and guidance.

A Playbook for Fostering Digital Resilience through Instruction in Adult Education | Digital Resilience in the American Workforce: This playbook demonstrates how digital resilience can be fostered in four subject areas: workforce preparation, health literacy, financial literacy, and civics.

California Adult Education Digital Learning Guidance | Outreach and Technical Assistance Network: Strategies, examples, and frameworks for digital teaching and learning.

Promoting Digital Literacy for Adult Learners: A Resource Guide | Digital Promise: This resource offers research-based guidance on supporting and coaching adult learners in developing and applying digital skills.

Digital Literacy Implementation Guide | Essential Education: An adult educator’s guide that outlines a simplified process for integrating digital literacy instruction into the classroom, bridging the gap between why digital literacy matters and the tools to teach it. 

The Digital Literacy Action Plan: A Strategy for Differentiation and Learner Agency in Digital Literacy Instruction | ProLiteracy: The article discusses the development of a Digital Literacy Action Plan to integrate digital literacy skills into adult basic education, empowering learners to acquire personalized digital skills and promoting lifelong learning and digital resilience.

AI Integration Framework | World Education: This framework is designed to serve as a guide for integrating the use of AI in education and training settings with adult learners and workers.

EdTech Bytes: Generative AI | World Education: A series of brief webinars on responsibly and ethically using GenAI in the adult education classroom: 1) Zero to Hero, 2) Power of Open, 3) Making It Work, and 4) Humans in Focus.

Massachusetts AI Hub | Massachusetts Technology Collaborative: Free AI online training resources for Massachusetts residents.

AI Literacy Lessons | Common Sense Media: Quick, grab-and-go lessons to help your students think critically about AI and its impact. Designed for grades 6–12, but can be adapted for adults.

GenAI Literacy 101 for Students | AI for Education: A free, self-paced online course for learning the essentials of Generative AI.

GenAI Chatbot Prompt Library for Educators | AI for Education: A variety of prompts to help instructors lesson plan and do administrative tasks with GenAI chatbots.

Digital Skills Self-Assessment | World Education: A brief self-assessment on basic digital skills for students.

Selecting an Assessment | Digital Resilience in the American Workforce: Guidance for programs on selecting an appropriate digital skills assessment.

Northstar Digital Literacy | Literacy Minnesota: Online, self-guided assessments to measure mastery of digital skills in multiple areas.

Digital Inclusion Program Manual | National Digital Inclusion Alliance: Comprehensive guidance for digital inclusion program development.

Best Practices for Ensuring Digital Inclusion Program Impact | National Digital Inclusion Alliance: This brief explores how digital inclusion programs across the country are demonstrating that intentional design, consistent evaluation, and community-centered approaches are vital to long-term success.

Advancing Digital Inclusion Program Sustainability Through Data Collection and Evaluation | National Digital Inclusion Alliance: This brief explores how the ability to measure and clearly communicate the impacts of digital inclusion programs on the people and communities they serve is fundamental to the sustainability of individual programs and the digital opportunity field as a whole.