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Code authentification netler marche pas12/13/2022 What’s your take? Does reading ahead harm the collaborative processes that happen in the classroom or does it not matter? Or, maybe, is it even better as more students come to class prepared to engage? Of course, this is only possible when the students in your course actually read the texts! By reading the same texts together it emphasizes the collective processes and the possibilities of engaged, collaborative learning – something that just can’t happen on your own. Often it is the discussions in class that force the students to go back and read things differently, to make new connections between the texts, and to be in the ‘learning moment’. Students who read ahead still read the same material but miss out in the process, which is one of the great benefits of being in a class.Īs someone who invests heavily in collaborative processes I think the article is on track. The article argues that by reading ahead students miss the most important part of the experience of reading, the communal coming together of the class to interrogate different themes, generate new ways of reading the text, and creating new avenues of critique and debate. The key question that the article argues is this: “What difference does it make whether they have read in July or October?” In a new article on The Chronicle of Higher Education site (always worth reading), a great question is raised: Is it beneficial for students to ‘read ahead’ for their classes? Many students petition their profs for reading lists months in advance (I remember doing this for a grad class once) and many professors are more than willing to accommodate such eager students (mine was).
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