Youth and Adult Perceptions of a New Technology in California 4-H: The Online Record Book

Academic Article

Abstract

  • Youth development research suggests that adult volunteers have the potential to influence the how and when youth engage with technology as a legitimate form of program participation. The adults’ comfort levels with technology, coupled with the historical structure of the youth development organization itself, shapes which technologies are made available to, adopted by, or perceived as relevant or useful to youth. This study explores how adults and youth members of California 4-H perceived the 4-H Online Record Book (ORB), an electronic version of the traditional  4-H record book. Survey data from 236 self-identified users and non-users of ORB provided feedback about their use of and feelings towards ORB, with youth expressing more positive feelings towards ORB and adults feeling more negative about the system. Youth however, felt supported by adults to use ORB.
  • Authors

  • Lewis, Kendra
  • Steven M. Worker, Steven M
  • Publication Date

  • December 15, 2016
  • Published In

    Keywords

  • Basic Behavioral and Social Science
  • Behavioral and Social Science
  • Clinical Research
  • Digital Object Identifier (doi)

    Volume

  • 11
  • Issue

  • 2