Repel students reading laziness with book vending machine at school
With the powerful development of information technology in the fourth industrial revolution, the reading laziness of the young generation today is an alarming situation. Teenagers can spend hours on social media but can not spend 30 minutes reading a book.
Facing this situation, some elementary schools in the United States have experimented with book vending machine models at schools to encourage students to read.
Can install a book vending machine at school encourage students to read? Let's discover the answer with Dropfoods through the article below.
1. Benefits of creating reading habit for students
Regular reading will help children improve knowledge, expand vocabulary, learn to express their thoughts and opinions clearly, logically, and attract listeners with rich and diverse vocabulary.
Reading also helps pupils improve concentration because when reading, their whole mind is focused on the content of the book, gradually helping children improve their ability to concentrate, enhance thinking and analytical skills.
Besides, reading books also help students improve their memory when they have to remember information, story details, and the content of the book. Over time it will help to raise their memorization ability. Reading is also a form of entertainment, inspiration and reduces feelings of anxiety and insecurity in student age. Through stories, the young generation will find the sympathy of the characters, understand that they are not alone, thereby helping them to get rid of the feelings of anxiety, helplessness and lift their spirits.
One of the most practical benefits of reading is helping students form a healthy habit, helping them to stay away from smart electronic devices such as smartphones, iPad, TVs,... and other bad habits in modern times like virtual living and indifference, insensitivity to things happening around.
With the aim of increasing students' interest in reading, some elementary schools in the United States such as Garfield, Shiloh Valley, Peterson, JB Watkins, ... have come up with the idea of distributing books via vending machines at school.
Unlike other vending machines, students at these schools can only buy books with gold coins - rewards received from teachers for completing learning, reading goals or from positive behavior and students use that coin to buy books at the machine.
According to Susan Rodgers - Principal of Shiloh Valley Elementary School, pupils are very proud of the book they received, it helps them to have the motivation to read the book and improve themselves so that they can get more gold coins. This idea not only helps to foster a love of reading in the young generation, but also creates an incentive for them to strive for learning and to practice good behavior.
With the positive response from students and parents, a series of elementary schools in the United States are implementing book vending machine models at their schools.
2. Book vending machines at school help encourage students to read
3. Reasons why educational establishment should install book vending machines at schools
The primary goal of creating the book vending machine at school is to help reinforce the value of reading. Since then, contributing to repel the problem of lazy reading of modern students, especially in Vietnam. With large capacity, the book vending machine can be considered as a miniature library when the school can equip books with a variety of genres and topics to suit the needs and personal interests of students.
In addition, the school administration can build a healthy learning environment for pupils by giving away free book purchase codes to reward students with good academic results or good behavior. Thereby encouraging students to be active in learning and practicing personality, forming a good lifestyle.
Moreover, the installation of book vending machines in school areas also contributes to increasing the school's revenue and helps build the image of a modern school in the Industry 4.0 era.
Reading is a good habit that has a great influence on the intellectual and personality development of each person, especially the student age. The installation of book vending machines in the school area will create a healthy source of entertainment, increase students' interest in reading, thereby contributing to repel the current issue of reading laziness and social media addiction.
Reference:
“Book vending machine promotes reading, good behavior at Marinette school.” wxow.com, 2020,https://wxow.com/2020/02/06/book-vending-machine-promotes-reading-good-behavior-at-marinette-school/. Accessed 06 02 2020.
Escobar, Estephany. “Book Vending Machines Encourage Children to Read.” spectrum news1, 2020