LIterature Review

First off, our group has decided that best (and only) time for meeting each other consistently is to meet before class each Wednesday night.  So that's why I'm blogging after Wednesday night's class regarding last week's meeting.  Or something confusing like that.  Anywho, it was that meeting where I confessed my lack of understanding and personal dissatisfaction with my project.  And it was Megan who optioned the idea of a You Tube channel.  What's to be done with this channel has yet to be fully conceptualized.  Ideas were focused around book trailers.  However, what I know is this:  reading for personal pleasure is somewhat a passion of mine.

Personally, I know from experienced what it did to for me.  I was not one of those kids that began reading at 1.5 years old and couldn't stop, nor was I a top Accelerated Reader.  I wouldn't even read my freshmen year English assignments.  It felt forced.  It wasn't until I trashed the books and the whole higher education thing for a year that things took a new direction.  I was tired of school and tired of being forced.  I dropped out and started working.

Then I got bored.  Really bored.  So, a friend at work gave me her copy of Kerouac's On The Road to pass the time.  That was it.  That was the catalyst for my pleasure reading endeavors.  The rest is history and I won't go into to it but I graduated with a degree in English.

That being said, pleasure reading can be detrimental to education.  Not necessarily institutional education.  We need to educate ourselves, learn just to learn.  That's personal growth.  So, now, my thesis question is going to be something like this:  How can these You Tube videos, patron-produced or engaged, library produced, aid in the personal growth of young adults, especially focusing on how young people learn in the 21st century.