“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

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“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...”
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Said on Campus Talks by Times Higher Education
Why it worked 70 pages Share this moment
“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”
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Jason Ames
Work For Humans ·
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“I read books in like 24 hours or 48 hours because I taught myself how to like speed read or listen to audio books at like two or three times.”
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Sasha Hamdani
Habits and Hustle ·
Why it worked 24-48 hours Share this moment
“That machine is only reading the pages that I've just already read. So it's only telling you stuff I've already read.”
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