Apps Improve Parent Engagement?

"What Communication Apps Got Wrong About Parent Engagement" questions apps that are designed enhance parent engagement. The following are excepts from the article. "To create effective family support in education, parents and teachers need trust and a real person-to-person connection. Unfortunately, most of the purpose-built communication tools that have recently emerged do not enhance and support the parent-teacher relationship. While they are effective at replacing piles of paper flyers and email communications with real-time digital options, they don't address the heart of the issue - building strong relationships between parents and teachers." "Despite growing adoption of communication tools, parent engagement appears to be going in the wrong direction in recent years.  According to data compiled from various sources by Child Trends DataBank, "Parental involvement in school, as measured by attendance at a general meeting, a meeting with a teacher, or a school event, or by volunteering or serving on a committee, rose significantly between 1999 and 2007, but fell on most measures in 2012." Have we been limiting the personal connection with the adoption of technology versus trying to find ways to enhance it instead? To read the entire article go to: "What Communication Apps Got Wrong About Parent Engagement"