Welcome to our newsletter!

We're excited to share the latest updates and highlights from our Teens Teach Tech, powered by AT&T,  Digital Skills Training, and Digital Works programs. Our mission to empower communities with essential digital skills and create opportunities for meaningful impact continues to grow, with over 100,000 adults trained to date.

Read on to discover the exciting developments from October!

Teens Teach Tech, powered by AT&T

Teens Teach Tech, powered by AT&T, is an exceptional program for organizations and school projects, empowering teens in grades 8-12 to teach essential digital skills to adults. With the upcoming holiday season, it’s also a great time for teens to conduct training sessions with family and friends.

Celebrating Digital Inclusion Week

This October, we celebrated Digital Inclusion Week with an impactful event at the International Center of Kentucky, Bowling Green on October 4, emphasizing the importance of bridging the Digital Divide. Our recent blog post, Teens Teach Tech, powered by AT&T: The magic of bridging the Digital Divide, featured the Capitol City Changemakers and their creative, Harry Potter-themed training sessions. Read their story here.

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Get involved today!

 If you’d like to form a team or bring Teens Teach Tech, powered by AT&T into your programming, complete an interest form here or reach out to Jessica Golson at jgolson@connectednation.org.

Digital Skills Training led by Connected Nation

Our Digital Skills Training Program continues to make a significant impact, with workshops for 2025 already being scheduled. Attendees have shared feedback such as, “This training was very helpful,” and “The trainer was super helpful, very patient, and understanding.”

The importance of digital literacy

Digital Inclusion Week began on October 4 at the International Center of Kentucky, Bowling Green, setting the stage for impactful workshops throughout the month. In partnership with the United Way of Denton County, Texas, Marco Mata, one of Connected Nation’s bilingual trainers, led workshops that empowered participants like Beverly Lee, a breast cancer survivor whose story of resilience and newfound digital confidence was truly inspiring. Read more about Beverly’s journey here.

In another recent blog, The importance of digital literacy in today’s world, emphasizes how essential digital skills have become. Read the full blog here.

Schedule Marco and Alek for free workshops in your town and bring digital skills to your community in 2025. If you’re interested, fill out an interest form or contact Tammy Spring at tspring@connectednation.org.

Drive - Your Digital Learning Hub

As online training evolves, Connected Nation offers Drive, an innovative, self-paced platform for learners. This platform enables Connected Nation and its partners to deliver essential tech training to vulnerable populations, supporting the learning process with tools for personalized plans, progress tracking, assessments, and certifications.

Each month, we will feature a course from the Drive site.

This month's feature course is Evaluating Web Pages. You can expect to find anything and everything available on the Internet: articles, reviews, full-text documents, academic courses, hoaxes, frivolous and serious personal pages, commercials, scholarly papers, reference sources, scientific reports, and more. 

Ready to learn on your own? Access this and more self-paced digital skills courses here!