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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm an English teacher. The texts (short stories, poems, essays) that appear in textbooks don't generally appeal to my students. I get to know them and their interests and change out our readings year-to-year.

Two years ago, my sophomores were really in to soccer. You bet that as often as I could, I found soccer related texts. Some I created myself! But that soccer year involved more learning [b]in a good chunk of students [/b]than would have occurred if I went with the per-selected stories.[/quote]

And what about the others?  I would have hated being in your class during soccer-year.[/quote]

Me too! Yuck[/quote]

It is healthy and important to read texts that don't automatically appeal to ones interests. Why does everything these days have to be about what kids like? When I was young, you got what you got and you didn't get upset. Now my kids are so quick to say something is boring and not do it.

Second, real scientific studies have shown people don't learn as well reading on a computer or tablet. [/quote]

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