Examining family literacy and technology is an essential component to globalization. On a daily basis, new and increasing technological demands are put into practice in individuals' lives, competing with the next phase that technology offers to the world and in the home. These technological demands determine how family literacy practices are significant to the ways families talk, think, value and identify themselves when engaging in technologies. My dissertation acknowledges technologies as meaning-making practices that involve visual pictures, artifacts, texting and identities that create and change the ways researchers look at family literacy, technology and social practices. In addition, these demands change the social and spatial relationships in which families are apprenticed in the home. Given the influence and impact on new technologies in the world, my dissertation is important because it reflects the rapid changes taking place in the home affecting current and future generations.

In addition to her doctoral endeavors, this native Washingtonian is a Reading Specialist and teaches Financial Literacy at The Fishing School, a nonprofit after-school program, in Washington, D.C.