Leveraging Technology toward Family Supports for and Development of Middle Schoolers
- Elizabeth Gil (St. John's University)
Abstract
This Practitioner Perspective discusses how sharing a learning space with their parents, college students, and other adult members in a community-based technology program influenced middle school students’ familial support, their own technology knowledge and social capital, sense of membership in a learning community, and identity development. The program’s structure used technology as a starting point to develop skills, but also to aid Latino immigrant families to navigate their children’s schooling experiences.
Keywords: technology, Latino families, familial support, adolescent development, community-based programs
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