Review of the Maryland Department of Labor’s Adult Education Digital Literacy Framework for Adult Learners: Instructor Implementation Guide

Abstract

The Maryland Department of Labor’s Adult Education Digital Literacy Framework for Adult Learners: Instructor Implementation Guide is a very useful resource. The need to teach digital literacy skills has never been more widely recognized than now. This guide goes a long way to illustrate how to think about integrating digital literacy skills into content instruction through the lesson activities and online resources it contains. The crosswalk with College and Career Readiness standards and CASAS standards also makes this guide very helpful for teachers who may be applying these standards already but had no guidance on how to incorporate digital literacy skills into the content they were already teaching. The guide also offers versatile lesson ideas that can be used as they are written or as models that instructors can use to develop lessons specifically related to the learners in their classes.