Today's post is a link to the presentation that Bill Johnston and I gave at the European Conference on Information Literacy last week, AI + Age-Friendly Media and Information Literacy: Gerontechnology.
In the presentation we defined Ageism, and looked at the intersection of AI and Ageism. The AI generated images on the title slide (presented here) show how ageism is embedded (notably the small older woman sitting with the big AI robot pressing on her toes!)
We defined Gerontechnology ("the interaction between aging individuals and technology, aiming to develop technologies that promote the health, safety, independence, and social engagement of older adults” (Ji et al., 2025, p2) and then looked at Ageism + AI + Gerontechnology (The World Health Organization has published a report on this).
In response we highlighted: firstly the 3 Media & Information Literacy roles for older people that are proposed in our Age-Friendly Media and Information Literate (#AFMIL) model (Webber & Johnston, 2019); secondly, the need to exlplore older people's Digital Repertoires (rather than concentrating just on digital skills) and finally we presented Birkland's (2019) interesting typology of older people's technology use. A goal is to to create gerontechnology which is life-wide, creative, and going beyond a focus on care and health.
You can download a copy of the slides (in pdf format) from here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ut9j6fIvHa98c44rdEk5hTwW_bUkuTlg/view?usp=drive_link
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