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Digital Skills for Older Adults: Teaching Technology in Public Libraries
May 18, 2016
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Presenters
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Kathy Faubion St. Mary’s County Library Leonardtown, Maryland
Crystal Schimpf TechSoup for Libraries
San Francisco, California
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Agenda
• Teaching Digital Literacy with TechBoomers.com
• Free tutorials from TechBoomers.com
• How to leverage TechBoomers.com in training
• Older Adults & Technology
• How to reach older adults
• Meeting technology needs
• Evaluating services
• Q&A
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Resources for Teaching Digital Skills
Free Paid
TechBoomers.com Lynda.com
DigitalLearn.org Atomic Training
GCFLearnFree.org
Older Adults, Technology, and the Library
Kathy Faubion St. Mary’s Library [email protected] https://www.stmalib.org/
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Older Adults and the Library
• The fastest growing group of library users
• An underserved population
• Assumptions, biases, and prejudices
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How to reach older adults
• What methods does your library use to reach older adults in the community?
• Does your library include older adults in the planning and programming process?
• Does your library currently outreach into the community?
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How to reach older adults
• What methods does your library use to reach older adults in the community?
• Does your library include older adults in the planning and programming process?
• Does your library currently outreach into the community?
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Denver Public Library Technology Classes
Lesson Plans include: • lesson objectives • lesson prep work • lesson prerequisites • lesson outline • exercises • links • where to go for more help
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Figure 2-1 (p.18): Is Your Library Senior-Friendly?
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Mousercise
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Tips for working with older adults
• Physical Spaces- are they ADA compliant?
• Consider the best times of day and travel considerations.
• Think in terms of audio, visual, and dexterity issues
• Teach what is relevant, and let them learn by doing
• Be patient!
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Options to meet technology needs: One-on-one
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Small Class Setting
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A series, or a certificate?
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How do you Evaluate what’s working?
• Be ready to Fail!
• Do you do class surveys?
• Has your library done a technology survey?
• Do you collect and evaluate your data, keep statistics?
• Does your library have a digital inclusion plan?
• Do you maintain your partnerships and evaluate how they are working?
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Class Survey
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Making a difference, one person at a time
• Are you meeting your community’s needs?
• Serving older adults is all about the quality, not the quantity
• A look at the future…
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References
Asla, T., & Williamson, K. (2004). Older adults? Information needs and behavior. In Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, Third Edition. (pp. 3938-3943).New York: Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.1081/E-ELIS3-120043246
Bennett-Kapusniak, R. (2013). Older adults and the public library: The impact of the boomer generation. Public Library Quarterly, 32(3), 204-222. doi:10.1080/01616846.2013. 818814
Cavanagh, M. F., & Robbins, W. (2012). Baby boomers, their elders and the public library. Library Review, 61(8), 622-640. doi:10.1108/00242531211292114
Cody, M. J., Dunn, D., Hoppin, S., & Wendt, P. (1999). Silver surfers: Training and evaluating internet use among older adult learners. Communication Education, 48(4), 269. Retrieved from http://libaccess.sjlibrary.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com.libaccess. sjlibrary.org/ login.aspx?direct=true&db=ufh&AN=2381033&site=ehost-live
Decker, E.N. (2010). Baby boomers and the United States public library system. Library Hi Tech, 28(4), 605-616. doi: 10.1108/07378831011096268 https://www.denverlibrary.org/ctc-classes
https://www.digitallearn.org/ Gatto, S. L., & Tak, S. H. (2008). Computer, internet, and E-mail use among older adults: Benefits and barriers. Educational Gerontology, 34(9), 800-811. doi: 10.1080/ 03601270802243697
Internet Grandma. [meme]. Accessed on April 14, 2016 from http://www.xenon-webdesign.co.uk/dev/no-deleted-internet/ Mates, B. (2003). 5-Star Programming and Services for Your 55+ Library Customers. Chicago: ALA Programming Guides. [Cover Art retrieved from http://www.amazon.com/5-Star-Programming-Services-LibraryCustomers/dp/0838908438/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid= 1462643284&sr=1-2&keywords= ALA+Programming+Guides on May 7, 2016]
http://www.pclibrary.org/mousing/mousercise.htm www.Techboomers.com/
Singer, D., & Agosto, D. (2013). Reaching senior patrons in the digitized library. Public Libraries, 52(6), 38-42. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com.libaccess.sjlibrary.org/ login.aspx?direct=true&db=lih&AN=93457994&site=ehost-live
Slegers, K., van Boxtel, M.P.J., & Jolles, J. (2007). The effects of computer training and internet usage on the use of everyday technology by older adults: A randomized controlled study. Educational Gerontology, 33(2), 91-110. doi:10.1080/03601270600846733
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