ABSTRACT
This chapter pays close attention to the broader opportunities for literacy development with special concern for Latino youth in activity settings extending beyond classrooms to community and home settings. It develops more fully a partial account of how computer-based activities can support literacy development of Latino youth while showing cultural and linguistic responsivity to the background and interests of youth. There are a number of important demographic, linguistic, social, and cultural characteristics of Latino youth that raise both challenges, and, as the authors shall propose, opportunities for English literacy development. The facts set the stage for understanding better many of the challenges schools and society at large face in assisting the literacy development of Latino youth. Microprocessors are ubiquitous in everyday electronic devices, for example, watches, cell phones, electronic components of televisions, CD players, cameras, etc. Indeed, it is getting hard to find everyday electronic devices that don’t incorporate such devices.
