I had not considered that the generation that I technically grew up in was one of the first to be raised with the abundance of technology we have today. Although, those who were born in the 90’s will never know what it was like to not have a computer at their home. I enjoyed this chapter about the mass media and how it can help YA literature and be connected and weaved into YA literature.
I specifically enjoyed the author’s unscientific survey (although slightly outdated), about what YA’s find appealing about in the mass media. I was not surprised to see that there was a range of answers and that finding one specific common ground among all students is going to be very difficult. Consider for a moment all of the cliques in high school, certain groups think and care about certain things and often some of the groups will have some same likes, but the likelihood of all students having one common ground other than school is going to be very minimal. I think the author’s portrayed that in their survey. In most of the classes that I have had one of the key things to being a good teacher is finding a way to connect lessons to student’s lives, after reading this chapter I can see that will be difficult to achieve, but that with the help of technology it will be easier.
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