Practitioner Perspective

Leveraging Technology toward Family Supports for and Development of Middle Schoolers

Author

• • 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

How to Cite: Gil, E. (2018) “Leveraging Technology toward Family Supports for and Development of Middle Schoolers”, Middle Grades Review. 4(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.70793/mgr.35