Throughout the article, Jenkins expresses how the youth are no learning as much from school

and "formal" learning systems, as they are through informal learning systems. This would be
them learning it from being hands on in the field they are interested in, or watching someone
do something and then they try to do it themselves. The age of students learning strictly from
textbooks and understanding and enjoying the work is dying. This is mainly do to the different
technologies and media source that are available to the youth now that were not available in
the past. Just like discourses, people are learning more from actually participating in their
affinity spaces which is causing for the change to this participatory culture we are now in. This
just shows how literacy and writing within different communities are changing. Not only to be
more specific towards that individual community, but also turning away from the standard pen
and paper that we have become accustom to using. Today, the youth are writing on their
computers and phones more than they are on paper. Because of this, the literacy of one group
could be completely different from another on just how they communicate.
Personally, when I am writing something down, at any given time, it is usually on my phone or
no more than two sentences. I do not use the writing techniques that I learned in school while
writing paper in a normal day. Also, a lot of the time, the communication that I do use are not
even full sentence or even words. In high school, I played football, and on the field, we did not
have time to talk to each other in sentences. For that reason, we would use hand signals and
key words. When I would yell "PIZZA," my teammate always knew exactly what I meant, but
this language was not learned from a book or a classroom. We had to learn these signals out
on the field. Our coach would tell us what they meant before a drill, but we would not
understand what it actually meant until we put it in motion and acted on the calls. Once you
do the same call a hand-full of times, you understand it and remember what to do in game
situations. This form of communication was verbal, so we never wrote anything down. The
times that we would write things down, we still did not use a typical pen and
paper. Technology has progressed and allowed us the opportunity to draw different plays out
on iPads or on the computer. This only made life easier on everyone. The only place that this
article fails to account for experiences in this community would be how the development of
different languages can be formed in communities that only the people in those communities
fully understand.