Below is a link to a YouTube channel designed by a user called "Klingon Teacher." This YouTube channel has numerous videos that translates and teaches users the language of Klingon. This language is becoming more and more popular in youth culture not only because of fans of Star Trek, but because the symbolic and meaningful messages underling the language.
This YouTube channel is a great example of how youth culture and media is evolving on a daily basis. Not only does it show how this language has become a part of popular culture over several years, but it demonstrates how media can essentially create a culture that is so large and prominent in the lives of youth. This "Klingon Teacher," has created a type of media that is aiding the development of a certain popular culture and is using it to make mass consumption.
This YouTube channel is a great example of how youth culture and media is evolving on a daily basis. Not only does it show how this language has become a part of popular culture over several years, but it demonstrates how media can essentially create a culture that is so large and prominent in the lives of youth. This "Klingon Teacher," has created a type of media that is aiding the development of a certain popular culture and is using it to make mass consumption.
https://www.youtube.com/user/KlingonTeacher
In chapter four of the novel, "Teaching Toward the 24th Century," by Karen Anijar, it is stated that Klingon is the fastest growing language in the world. "This rapidly expanding linguistic phenomenon wasn't even a glimmer in its creators' eyes 20 years ago. Conceived in the netherworld of Trek empire, Klingon is the first language ever forged in the hyperreality, emanating from a popular television show, based on a cultural world that came out of the Star Trek series, that is spoken, written, and studied" (2000). Through this quotation, it is evident that popular culture and media is playing a large role in our lives. The mass consumption of media and particularly, Star Trek, created a popular culture and essentially a new language for a significant amount of North American youth.
In result, it is evident that media and culture can greatly influence the lives of youth. Instead of shying away from teaching with media and creating a popular culture which involves education, teachers should embrace the ability it has to influence our students. Educators all over the world should attempt to understand their students interests and essentially revolve their teaching techniques around something that may create an educational phenomenon similar to the language of Klingon.
In result, it is evident that media and culture can greatly influence the lives of youth. Instead of shying away from teaching with media and creating a popular culture which involves education, teachers should embrace the ability it has to influence our students. Educators all over the world should attempt to understand their students interests and essentially revolve their teaching techniques around something that may create an educational phenomenon similar to the language of Klingon.