ABSTRACT
This chapter shares results from an ethnographic study of Latino immigrant families, focusing on three resourceful strategies some families used to "bridge" home and school. First, parents, all primarily Spanish speakers, employed free translator apps to bridge understanding: deciphering children's homework assignments in English and as an English learning tool. Second, families used other digital resources such as mobile applications and an online library to bridge skills: bolstering children's academic learning and language. A third way in which parents connected home and school was by bridging interest: using online video to further explore topics that children had discovered at school, thus extending school learning into the home space. The chapter also shares how families used Internet technologies to bridge home and school settings. It discusses several explicit, strategic, and often sophisticated ways in which families used Internet tools to bridge different settings, particularly home and school. Translator apps were a commonly used technology among families and served several different purposes.
