The Proactive Pen

My idea has to do with increasing the amount of participation that occurs when college students are giving a reading assignment. In The Fall, and Rise, of Reading, Steven Johnson writes that if students are giving a reading assignment and it is not graded, then only about 1/3 of the class will actually finish the reading assignment. How might we increase student reading in a fun/engaging way?

I am looking to target mostly the English majors in the United States, since reading assignments generally makes up about half of all assignments. I am also narrowing it to college students since my application that I am pitching will be used through their respective university.

The application that I have in mind will be an interactive, almost collaborative way to go about daily reading assignments. At the start of term, in one of the required English classes, students will be provided their Proactive Pen for initial usage. The idea is that all reading assignments will be generated/posted in this application. One the app is running, the Proactive Pen will switch on. Once the designated reading is located, that is when the pen will start tracking level of engagement that you are giving to the piece. This pen not only keeps track of how long you have been on a certain page of a text, but it also allows for careful annotating and commenting on others comments.

Once there is a section that is worth noting, you simple push the pen’s stylus side a little more aggressively, and the section will be highlighted for commenting or annotation. The pen can also be used for writing your annotations if students do not feel like typing.

When the next day begins for class, the teacher of the English course can look up and grade how much participation that an individual student had during a reading of a passage. More importantly, the professor can also track where students seemed to be getting stuck or had more questions than other sections and the professor can then address these concerns in class the next day. Not only will there be a more efficient way to grade reading assignments without quizzing, it keeps students more engaged in texts, but also feedback will be given as to what needs to actually be taught when the next class comes around.

Teachers/professors normally have a set schedule of how they want to teach a certain course, but with the Proactive Pen and corresponding application, they will know exactly where students are being thrown off and can address the problems in class.

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