by Kenny Mckee
"It’s no secret that state and national assessments continue to indicate that boys lag behind girls in the area of reading.
"The gap tends to grow larger as students enter adolescence. It’s also no secret that many teenage boys dislike reading — in class or at home. Just ask a high school teacher…or a teenage boy. While it’s not true that all teenage boys dislike reading, there is a growing trend of many becoming unmotivated readers. Obviously, students who are resistant to reading are unlikely to get better at it. Here are four ideas for motivating adolescent male readers."
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Jim Lerman
What I find really interesting in this piece is the need for academic institutions to recognise that disruption can also happen from 'within' - the younger or more curious members of faculty who are using the tools they can find to improve the quality of teaching and learning.
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