ABSTRACT

Children and Families in the Digital Age offers a fresh, nuanced, and empirically-based perspective on how families are using digital media to enhance learning, routines, and relationships. This powerful edited collection contributes to a growing body of work suggesting the importance of understanding how the consequences of digital media use are shaped by family culture, values, practices, and the larger social and economic contexts of families’ lives. Chapters offer case studies, real-life examples, and analyses of large-scale national survey data, and provide insights into previously unexplored topics such as the role of siblings in shaping the home media ecology.

chapter 1|14 pages

Introduction

section 2|57 pages

Parent Engagement

chapter 6|19 pages

Responding to Classroom Change

How Low-Income Latino Parents View Technology’s Impacts on Student Learning

chapter 7|19 pages

What Makes Media Educational?

Learning from Latino Parents and Children

section 3|56 pages

Family Engagement