How Minecraft is helping kids fall in love with books
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How Minecraft is helping kids fall in love with books
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Re: How Minecraft is helping kids fall in love with books
#2As a full time kid and an ex minecraft player, I think that's a way to get into books. The only way I got into books was by trying hard at first to read on my phone (it was hard and boring for a month I was reading during boring classes at school). But now a year later I've never read any paper books, all the books I've read are ebooks.
Re: How Minecraft is helping kids fall in love with books
#3As a full time kid and an ex minecraft player, I think that's a way to get into books. The only way I got into books was by trying hard at first to read on my phone (it was hard and boring for a month I was reading during boring classes at school). But now a year later I've never read any paper books, all the books I've read are ebooks.
> But now a year later I've never read any paper books, all the books I've read are ebooks.
This is the most mind-blowing thing I've read on HN. It really makes me appreciate generational differences.
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#4As a full time kid and an ex minecraft player, I think that's a way to get into books. The only way I got into books was by trying hard at first to read on my phone (it was hard and boring for a month I was reading during boring classes at school). But now a year later I've never read any paper books, all the books I've read are ebooks.
hi kid, enjoy your eyesight while it last. one day you won't tolerate screens and monitors anymore for long reads or papers, and then, paper books/printers will be cool again... ;)
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#5Minecraft is absolutely not helping in the war on screens. As a former educator I laugh heartily at the proposition. Although, I did use "screen time" as a gift-able and earn-able commodity, and in a small classroom of kids it works great to encourage sharing, participation, group watch / observance, and "can I please share with Timmy now so I can have more screentime later?" [success fist]
Re: How Minecraft is helping kids fall in love with books
#6As a full time kid and an ex minecraft player, I think that's a way to get into books. The only way I got into books was by trying hard at first to read on my phone (it was hard and boring for a month I was reading during boring classes at school). But now a year later I've never read any paper books, all the books I've read are ebooks.
hi kid, enjoy your eyesight while it last. one day you won't tolerate screens and monitors anymore for long reads or papers, and then, paper books/printers will be cool again... ;)
Eye health requires active management, whether you are using screens or paper, with or without corrective lenses. It's not a foregone conclusion.
Re: How Minecraft is helping kids fall in love with books
#7Minecraft is absolutely not helping in the war on screens. As a former educator I laugh heartily at the proposition. Although, I did use "screen time" as a gift-able and earn-able commodity, and in a small classroom of kids it works great to encourage sharing, participation, group watch / observance, and "can I please share with Timmy now so I can have more screentime later?" [success fist]
As a pre-computer kid I say blaming screens is bogus. I’d do anything not to read the stupid books school gave me.
Fun thing I actually was an avid reader, but the curriculum books were totally out of place. At 12yo “Promessi Sposi” and “Divina Commedia” is such a shitty, verbose and convolute prose it killed my interest in literature.
Funnily enough I was enjoying at the time reading Calvino and Pirandello, authors I wouldn’t find in the curriculum until five years later. And read literally a ton of comics.
So blaming “screens” to me sounds like my average teacher back then totally disconnected with the minds of kids.
Re: How Minecraft is helping kids fall in love with books
#8Minecraft is absolutely not helping in the war on screens. As a former educator I laugh heartily at the proposition. Although, I did use "screen time" as a gift-able and earn-able commodity, and in a small classroom of kids it works great to encourage sharing, participation, group watch / observance, and "can I please share with Timmy now so I can have more screentime later?" [success fist]
As a pre-computer kid I say blaming screens is bogus. I’d do anything not to read the stupid books school gave me. Fun thing I actually was an avid reader, but the curriculum books were totally out of place. At 12yo “Promessi Sposi” and “Divina Commedia” is such a shitty, verbose and convolute prose it killed my interest in literature. Funnily enough I was enjoying at the time reading Calvino and Pirandello, authors…
Eh, fellow italian I presume, and I concur half-way.
But did you really have "Promessi Sposi" as 12yo? I recall having it in the high school curriculum, some 5 years later.
It is downright illegible for a small kid anyway, I 100% agree.
For me, the teachers' recommended readings for the summer were things of the "good educational readings" kind (To Kill a Mockingbird, Fontamara, Cronache di Poveri Amanti, Il Giardino dei Finzi Contini etc) which are terribly boring for kids.
On the other hand, my class had a class library with more enjoyable stuff in it (Tolkien, Calvino, YA stuff).
Re: How Minecraft is helping kids fall in love with books
#9As a full time kid and an ex minecraft player, I think that's a way to get into books. The only way I got into books was by trying hard at first to read on my phone (it was hard and boring for a month I was reading during boring classes at school). But now a year later I've never read any paper books, all the books I've read are ebooks.
hi kid, enjoy your eyesight while it last. one day you won't tolerate screens and monitors anymore for long reads or papers, and then, paper books/printers will be cool again... ;)
Then again, you can probably afford to buy an e-ink reader by then.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
hi kid, enjoy your eyesight while it last. one day you won't tolerate screens and monitors anymore for long reads or papers, and then, paper books/printers will be cool again... ;)
Eye health requires active management, whether you are using screens or paper, with or without corrective lenses. It's not a foregone conclusion.
Also eInk displays are functionally no different to reading on paper and the phenomenon of eye trouble from people who engage in a lot of close focus work pre-dates the computer age by a lot.