This has to exist already—an app that lets you read literature as a social activity. I am imagining an AP English classroom where the students all have tablets. The teacher enters a code and unlocks the semester’s reading list. The students then begin to competitively read against/with each other, in a networked fashion, unlocking achievements as they make their way through the text. There are waypoints/savepoints where the students are quizzed on their comprehension before being allowed to proceed. It could either be a first-person-reader or the students could form study groups/teams. There could be some Survivor-style intrigue and machinations built into it—reading as a RPG experience—with opportunities for co-op or solo. There would be a dashboard/leaderboard that would show the stats of the class’ progress. Students could create video essays and post them to the group or they could type it out the old-fashioned way. Achievements might unlock bonus content or give the winner special privileges.
Cheating would be an issue. And not every student would want to play or necessarily benefit from this kind of interaction.
It’s weird to think of reading as a social activity instead of something private.
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THIS IS GENIUS!