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Anne Rieke Word count: 426 In class, it was asserted that family professionals who are on the front lines with families should model and encourage digital citizenship. One could argue that this is not the job of a family professional; that our work is on the content and practice of family life, not teaching aboutContinue reading “Technology and Family Professionals”

What does the changing world of work mean for the family field? Should we be changing how we teach about family relationships and management to adapt to work that is anywhere, anytime, social, mobile, collaborative, and more results rather than place and time focused? I think that the changing world of work, or as IContinue reading “New Way of Working and its Effect of Families”

In class, we will view two videos of fathers who have taken to the internet to assert their parenting roles. Considering the video your group did NOT discuss, relate the father’s actions in that video to our course discussion about parenting and parent-child relationships. Do you believe that the father’s actions were right? Wrong? Why?Continue reading “A Fathers Response”

Karraker (ch 3, in Breuss, 2015) talks about the families we don’t see when we consider family technology use. Who are those families? What might their unseen technology needs or uses be? How can we, as family professionals and advocates, better identify and understand their uses and needs?  After reading Karraker’s chapter Global Families inContinue reading “The families we don’t see when we consider family tech use.”

 Watch the video “Our Lives in 2025.” You’ll see technology’s ability to bring people together through artificial reality in ways that make them feel face to face. The video features hologram technology, translation and wearable technologies, data visualization and what it will be like to live in a ‘smart city.’ This is supposed to takeContinue reading “Reflection of the video “Life in 2025””

Hello All, My name is Anne Rieke. I am a junior at the University on Minnesota Twin Cities. I am majoring in Elementary Education and minoring in Family Social Science. I have created this blog do discuss topics I will be learning about in a course called Technology and the Family.

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right. You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click theContinue reading “Introduce Yourself (Example Post)”