ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on how learning opportunities are embedded in family goal achievement, and how such processes are tied to academic and career pursuits, builds on the connected learning body of knowledge. Brokering can be quite a difficult task for youth, researchers from education, sociology, and communication have documented important opportunities for positive learning outcomes. Parents were not only depending on their children for online information brokering, they needed their children as technology specialists. Online brokering can become more challenging when supportive family members are not consistently present. When children are motivated to develop expertise on topics that relate to their families, their brokering roles generate new learning opportunities. Lower socioeconomic parents with limited English-language proficiency often depend on their children to search and interpret online information, since important resources are predominately available in English. Online brokering can become more challenging when supportive family members are not consistently present.
