2. Teens and Technology: The What & The Why
a. Think Like a Teen
b. A Few Words on Safety

3. Teens and Technology: The How
a. Managing and Keeping Up with Technology
b. Gaining Administrative and Staff Support
c. Using Technology to Get the Word Out About the Library

The above quote from Chris O\u2019Neal gets right to the heart of something librarians
working with teens have to constantly be aware of. That is that anyone who is 16 or
younger (as of the mid 2000s) has lived their whole lives in a world in which the world
wide web always existed. No librarian, although it\u2019s close, can say that. For many
librarians, the web (and a lot of current technologies) came to life when they were
already adults. Librarians learn about the technology in an entirely different way than
teens because librarians don\u2019t live with it as a regular part of their everyday lives.

It\u2019s imperative then that librarians focus on technology from the perspective of someone who has always lived in a world with Internet, the web, email, text messaging, and so on for an entire lifetime.

\ue000Is my reaction to this different than what a teen\u2019s reaction would be?
\ue000Is my reaction related to lack of experience and/or age?
\ue000Am I looking at this from a mindset that focuses on technology as something alien,

As with books and other print materials that librarians and educators connect teens with,
we have to focus on what the appeal is to teens as opposed to what the barriers are
from an adult perspective.