Use your own device with confidence
Not a demonstration phone. The one in your pocket, with your settings and your apps.
The Education Platform of Bridging Technologies ATL
Practical technology skills for everyday independence.
AvailableTalk Tech With Chet helps older adults learn at their pace through patient instruction, real-life practice, and continued access to step-by-step classes.
What you will actually be able to do
Not computer literacy in the abstract. The specific things that make daily life easier.
Stay in touch on your terms
Messages, email, photographs, and video calls with the people you want to see.
Recognize a scam before it works
Warning signs, verification habits, and what to do when something feels wrong.
Handle everyday life online
Appointments, city services, money, transportation, and the practical things that moved online without asking.
Know what to do when it goes wrong
The recovery habits that stop a small problem from becoming a reason to give up.
Keep learning afterwards
Continued access to step-by-step classes, so a skill does not evaporate a month later.
Live instruction, then somewhere to go back to
A class teaches the skill. Continued access is what keeps it, three weeks later, when the room is gone and the question comes back.
Live instruction
In-person sessions in community venues, structured as cohorts that move together at a shared pace. Practice on your own device throughout, with time to repeat anything.
Continued app-based learning
Step-by-step classes you can work through at home, in your own time, as many times as you need. The same material, available when the instructor is not.
The class library
Organized by what you are trying to do, so you can find the one class you need without reading a list of everything.
Scam awareness runs through everything
Online safety is not a single frightening session at the end of the course. It is built into each topic, because that is how it works in real life — the suspicious message arrives while you are doing something else entirely.
Learners practice the same habit every time: pause, verify with a number you already trust, and talk to someone before acting. Approved public alerts live on 180Angles.
What comes with it
- Plain-language cheat sheets you can keep beside you
- A glossary that explains the words without using more jargon
- Short practice checks, so you know a skill actually landed
- Office hours for the question you did not want to ask in front of the group
For cities, libraries, and senior living
TTWC is also delivered as structured cohorts for communities and organizations, with program design, materials, and written reporting.
Questions people actually ask
The pace is set by the group, not by a syllabus. Repeating a step is normal and expected — most people need to do something three or four times before it sticks. Nobody is made to feel foolish for asking again.
No. You work on the device you already own, because that is the one you will use afterwards. If you do not have a device yet, tell us and we will talk about what makes sense before you spend anything.
Continued access to the step-by-step classes means you can go back over anything at your own pace, and Ask Chet is there for the questions that come up later.
Yes, and it works best when the person themselves wants to be there. If you are arranging it for someone else, involve them in the decision — attendance is voluntary in every sense that matters.
Start where you are.
Whether you are learning for yourself, helping a parent, or bringing a program to your community, the first step is the same conversation.