opp anonymous

A couple days ago I realized how infrequently I read any more. Like, I skim nonfiction / editorials all the time, but if I am taking something big in, I don't feel like I discovered it through reading. Usually, I get an idea from something I've been watching and then follow it around until something else catches my eye. When I thought about how I find new topics, I thought about my students. I started wondering if I should be giving my students' frequent complaint more credence. Is school - especially reading heavy classes - really, actually, boring? It seems like I see it in class, a lot: we watch a documentary, the kids are rivited. Deliver the same content via words on a page, and bleh. If we have the ability to make school less boring, how would we do it? Or, is taking steps to make school more pleasant feeding an instant-gratification monster? Something in the middle?