Gen Zers' are suffering from the reading crisis
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Nobody doubts the essence of reading in education. In addition to its role as the main way to enrich one's experiences for constructing knowledge, reading is also the most effective tool for sharpening analytical and critical thinking, developing creativity, enhancing concentration,enriching vocabulary, improving writing skills, and so on. Without appropriate reading skills, a student will likely fail in learning.
However, Gen Zers, the generation cohort which begins to flood higher learning today, seem to suffer from a crisis in reading.
In the class, the study of a new topic begins by asking the students to access the materials related to the topic and study them outside of the class in a certain period of time. To prove that they have finished studying the topic, each of them should write a summary. Having studied the topic, the students will have the proper knowledge base to actively contribute to class or group discussions held in a face-to-face session in the classroom. The knowledge base that has been developed through discussion in the class will then facilitate each student to contribute to the group project carried out online at the LMS or in the next face-to-face sessions.
This scenario could work with the millennial (or Generation Y) students. Though they found it "too demanding" in the beginning, most of them could adapt after going through one or two
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