From this week’s assigned reading I gathered a few things that seem to be a trend for students of the 21^st century.  In Elizabeth Edmondson’s Wiki Literature Circles, I read that students tend to be group oriented.  “When you are part of a group, you tend to not want to let your group down,” the author says.  From personal experience I know that there is strength in being part of a group in the classroom.  When faced with tasks you are unfamiliar with or not up to par with, a person who is proficient at the task is able to take the leadership role for that day.   You also have multiple minds thinking about the same topic, batting ideas back and forth.  Edmondson also suggests that students prefer fast pace game based learning with frequent rewards.  This could be because like Jennifer Dail says in her article The Hunger Games and little Brother Come to life on Voice Thread, that teens are immersed in reality games shows which are in essence a game.  Graphic as we have learned the entire semester are important to students who have grown up in a visual world; where a picture is worth a thousand words.  Something that I found extremely fascinating though in William J. Broz’s, The Green Knight Should Be Green: Graphic Response to Literature is that the visual elements do not always have to be just on paper.  The story about the student bringing in a tanned deer skin depicting the character True Son’s village from Conrad Richter’s The Light in the Forest is a perfect example of this.