Join friends for lunch and an informal article discussion… like a book club, with a lot lower time commitment?
When: October 19, noon
Where: In-person LSC 745*
Topic: Our students and reading
Article: Horowitch, 2026, The Age of Reading is Over?
Click bait:
Reading has come to seem extraneous… students now view reading as an unnecessarily burdensome way of acquiring knowledge. “By asking them to read,” she [Margaret Rennix, Harvard’s assistant director for humanities and social-sciences support] said, “professors are arbitrarily withholding information from students by forcing them to get it through this more difficult medium.”
Horowitch, 2026, The Age of Reading is Over.
(Wait, even Harvard professors are struggling with assigning reading for class?)
Next up, November 16: Science of learning, Cuevas, et. al. (2023). A rationale for promoting cognitive science in teacher education: Deconstructing prevailing learning myths and advancing research-based practices.
Email christopher.carson@ucdenver.edu to RSVP or for article links.
*If there are people that want to do a zoom discussion at this time, let Chris know. I can help set it up, but will advocated to keep the zoom and room separate?