Digital Literacy Learning at Home

Looking for some digital literacy lessons that students can take at home?

Youth Teaching Adults is a free digital literacy program for adult learners, led by youth volunteer-tutors. While we are practising social distancing, the one-to-one workshop model isn’t available. For now, the program, a collaboration of ABC Life Literacy Canada (ABC) and Youth Empower Parents (YEP), has highlighted several lessons that are suitable for at home learning. The selected lessons are designed to help learners safely use online tools to stay connected and informed.

For computers:

For mobile devices – iPhone:

For mobile devices – Android:

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