BREAKING DIGITAL BARRIERS

The Breaking Digital Barriers team is refining and testing a learning model that seeks to mitigate anxiety and strengthen development of higher order skills. Rote step-by-step "solutions" do not give learners long-term competencies; instead, we offer strategies that allow users to ​explore (understand the full space of affordances that are available to them, by a combination of visual scanning and navigation) and tinker (understand how user actions affect the system state, by direct action) in a safe, methodical way... We are a group of students and faculty committed to helping older adults and other underrepresented groups in the digital world, through research, outreach, and advocacy.