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Blinkist-style book-club activity: manageable book-reading

by GJ2020-07-192020-07-28

What's the best approach to get grad students to read complete books, without overwhelming them with work? Here I explore a solution inspired in one of my favorite phone apps, Blinkist, and merging it with an old-fashioned book-club idea...

Helping students read (aka “Magic ink” activity)

by GJ2020-05-062020-07-244 Comments

Reading complex, information-packed content that includes many completely new concepts is challenging: students may be tempted to breeze-through the text too fast, half an hour before class for which it was assigned, or late at night, twenty minutes before the submission deadline...