Digital Skills for Health and Social Services
This collection of courses helps learners build knowledge around using and problem-solving with digital tools in different areas of daily life. While topics are similar to Digital Skills courses in English and Spanish, English for Digital Skills courses introduce concepts in simpler English, are at a slower pace, and highlight key vocabulary to introduce English terms.
Course for English Language Learners.
Suitable for high beginner to intermediate English Language Learners and above.
Each unit is a collection of short lessons that are 3 minutes or fewer. Units usually take an hour or less to complete
Designed with reference to national and international digital skills frameworks competencies (Northstar, Essential Digital Skills UK, Google, GSMA Mobile Internet Skills Toolkit, TCALL: Texas A&M)
Unit 1: How to Find and Use Information on a Portal
Learn how and why to use a website for a doctor, agency, or school.
Unit 2: Finding Reliable Health Information
How can you tell what to trust when you’re looking at health information? Learn strategies for verifying information you read and determining trustworthiness of health websites, apps, and social media posts.
Unit 3: Accessing Electronic Personal Health Records
You have a right to obtain your health records. Learn how to find and keep electronic records of your healthcare.