TY - GEN
T1 - Information seeking practices of parents
T2 - 34th Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2016
AU - Disalvo, Betsy
AU - Roshan, Parisa Khanipour
AU - Morrison, Briana
PY - 2016/5/7
Y1 - 2016/5/7
N2 - Parents are often responsible for finding, selecting, and facilitating their children's out-of-school learning experiences. One might expect that the recent surge in online educational tools and the vast online network of information about informal learning would make this easier for all parents. Instead, the increase in these free, accessible resources is contributing to an inequality of use between children from lower and higher socio-economic status (SES). Through over 60 interviews with a diverse group of parents, we explored parents' ability to find learning opportunities and their role in facilitating educational experiences for their children. We identified differences in the use of online social networks in finding learning opportunities for their children based on SES. Building upon these findings, we conducted a national survey in partnership with ACT, an educational testing services organization, to understand if these differences were generalizable to and consistent among a broader audience. Copyright 2016
AB - Parents are often responsible for finding, selecting, and facilitating their children's out-of-school learning experiences. One might expect that the recent surge in online educational tools and the vast online network of information about informal learning would make this easier for all parents. Instead, the increase in these free, accessible resources is contributing to an inequality of use between children from lower and higher socio-economic status (SES). Through over 60 interviews with a diverse group of parents, we explored parents' ability to find learning opportunities and their role in facilitating educational experiences for their children. We identified differences in the use of online social networks in finding learning opportunities for their children based on SES. Building upon these findings, we conducted a national survey in partnership with ACT, an educational testing services organization, to understand if these differences were generalizable to and consistent among a broader audience. Copyright 2016
KW - Educational opportunities
KW - Information access
KW - Parents
KW - Social network
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U2 - 10.1145/2858036.2858586
DO - 10.1145/2858036.2858586
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85015069914
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
SP - 623
EP - 634
BT - CHI 2016 - Proceedings, 34th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 7 May 2016 through 12 May 2016
ER -