Linking Urban Latino Families to School Using the Web: A Pilot Study.

Autor/inn/en	Fishman, Barry; Kupperman, Jeff; Soloway, Elliot
Titel	Linking Urban Latino Families to School Using the Web: A Pilot Study.
Quelle	(1999), (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Computer Literacy; Computer Uses in Education; Disadvantaged Youth; Hispanic Americans; Middle School Students; Middle Schools; Pilot Projects; Science Education; Television; Urban Schools; Urban Youth; World Wide Web + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Computerkenntnisse; Computernutzung; Benachteiligter Jugendlicher; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Pilot project; Modellversuch; Pilotprojekt; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; Fernsehen; Fernsehtechnik; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Youth; Jugend; World Wibe Web
Abstract	This paper describes a project that provided television set-top Internet access devices to Latino families as part of a project to link the school and home in an inquiry-based science curriculum. The early phases of adoption of the Internet and the "NetTV" devices by families are described, with special attention to the different ways that families make educational use of the Internet. Internet use data was collected from 13 families of middle school students in Detroit (Michigan). Log files from the "boxes," student interviews, field notes, and parent comments from group meetings provided data that show the emerging patterns of use and preferences for online activity. Children (both students and their siblings) and, to a lesser extent, fathers, were the primary users. Mothers were concerned that their children were using the boxes properly for school, but appear not to have used the boxes much themselves. Education was not the primary application for the boxes, but students did access a wide range of educational resources, including the online science curriculum materials. (Contains 2 figures, 1 table, and 24 references.) (SLD)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC