A presentation in Second Life for the Healthy Aging Conference at Whole Brain Health. May 2023

1. Valerie Hill, PhD

2. Impact of the Internet and
Digital Devices

3. The trouble
with tech…..

4. Help! I forgot my password!
• Everything is online
now!
• My device isn’t
working
• Hardware issues
• Software issues
• Terminology
• It keeps changing

5. Tech for Health and Social Outreach
Telemedicine and Virtual Visits
MyChart
Searching for health information online
(Too much!)
Socialization vs Isolation

6. Social Robots as Caregivers

10. And now AI is
exploding!

11. What is LITERACY in digital culture?
©2020 Valerie Hill (CH 5)

14. Learning Environments
Physical, Virtual or Augmented
©2020 Valerie Hill (CH 7)

15. FUTURE RESEARCH
is needed for all age groups
to understand digital
citizenship.
Yes! The Information
Revolution has changed
literacy forever. We live in a
fascinating, fast-paced time
no matter what it is called.
Perhaps the consensus will be to
adopt the name…
Metamodernism
©2020 Valerie Hill (CH 9)

16. ©2020 Valerie Hill
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Van Den Akker, R., Gibbons, A., & Vermeulen, T. (2017). Metamodernism:
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Van Den Akker, R., & Vermeulen, T. (2017).