The development of digital skills for all is a key focus of many educational policies across the globe. Despite the significant attention paid to the nature and suitability of such policies targeted at young people, there has been far less focus on digital skills policies targeted at adults. This article contributes to this literature. It outlines current digital skills policy in England. Having established this background, it analyses 30 interviews with digitally competent adults from lower socio‐economic backgrounds about their experiences of learning to use the Internet. In doing so, the article highlights that a narrow and instrumental digital skills agenda is emerging in the education of adults, driven by the needs of the commercial sector, that is in stark contrast to the experiences, motivations and hopes of adults who learn about, and use, digital technologies. Reframing digital skills as part of a broader adult education agenda may offer a way to facilitate the development of digital literacies that individuals seek.

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成为具有数字素养的人：恢复成人数字技能政策的教育视角

普及数字技能是全球许多教育政策的重点。尽管已经非常关注针对年轻人的此类政策的性质和适用性，但针对成年人的数字技能政策的关注却很少。本文对这一文献有所贡献。它概述了英国当前的数字技能政策。建立了这一背景之后，它对来自社会经济背景较低的具有数字能力的成年人进行了30次访谈，以了解他们学习使用互联网的经历。在此过程中，本文着重指出，在商业教育的需求驱动下，成人教育中正在出现一种狭窄而实用的数字技能议程，这与成年人的经验，动机和希望形成鲜明对比，和使用，数字技术。重新定义数字技能，作为更广泛的成人教育议程的一部分，可能提供一种促进个人寻求的数字素养发展的方式。