ERIC Number: EJ1476562
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025
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Digital Literacies for Digital Health Realities
Jill Castek; Tyler H. J. Frank
Adult Literacy Education, v7 n2 p54-59 2025
This research digest addresses digital health literacies, demonstrating the important role that adult basic education instructors can play in supporting learners to adapt to a changing digital world. This review is structured by first examining the relationship between the internet and health. The report then discusses the digital health information landscape offering some definitions. The authors go on to describe four components of digital health literacies and close the review by linking research and practice, offering implications for adult education.
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Internet, Information Technology, Access to Internet, Technological Literacy, Health, Access to Information, Cooperative Learning, Problem Solving, Adult Students, Community Education, Team Teaching
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Education Level: Adult Education
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Language: English
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