“Offering the grant… a book vending machine… students work hard in the classroom and earn a coin to go visit the book vending machine on their campus.”
Entrepreneurs on Fire · Closing the Classroom Gap: Empowering Educators Through Community and Grant Support with Jennifer Burton
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What was described
offered a grant for a book-vending machine that lets students earn a coin to select a book, incentivizing reading
Said nearby on the same subject
“So if I have students to read 70 pages of a novel, and then I lecture in class in a way that they didn't really have to read that to understand the lecture, next time they won't do the reading. But if the activities that I plan for students in class, have them make use of the reading...”
“I read eight hours on average per episode. I interview a lot of people with a lot of books… it’s a learning path and the value of reading the books is really important to me”