World History
We are doing a study of our homework assignments and amounts in our county. Interestingly enough it is coming from the best and the hardest working students whose parents see them taking six AP classes and working 4-5 hours a night on homework. That being the case I have always believed that homework is there to reinforce, introduce, but not improperly burden. As my principal said the other day, if it adds nothing to student retention, then why give a particular assignment.
With that in mind this article from OECD looks at the PISA results and sees some very interesting results: lower income students complete less homework (perhaps because they are also less likely to take more challenging classes), are less likely to have a quiet place to study (which is very important for my children who prefer their rooms now that they are getting older), have less homework today than a few years ago (or, as the article points out, may be doing less because of competing interests brought on by the Internet and mobile devices)
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World History
Does Homework Perpetuate Inequalities in Society?
With that in mind this article from OECD looks at the PISA results and sees some very interesting results: lower income students complete less homework (perhaps because they are also less likely to take more challenging classes), are less likely to have a quiet place to study (which is very important for my children who prefer their rooms now that they are getting older), have less homework today than a few years ago (or, as the article points out, may be doing less because of competing interests brought on by the Internet and mobile devices)
- Remind Your Students Using Texts
Today I found an article on the Washington Post that goes with along with what some of my students are doing for homework. So, today I sent them the link to the article and was able to do it because all of my students voluntarily sign up for Remind.com because...
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There are a bunch of ways to shorten a long url which you will want to consider using. If you use Google Drive, you have some very long urls that you may want to send to your students using something like Remind101 (for homework) or if you want...
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I have been using Remind101 since its conception two+ years ago to text my students their homework assignments. What I have learned is that kids do not do their homework mostly because they forget, not because they don't want to. Remind101...
- Qr Codes For Homework
So I am starting a little experiment with QR codes. While I had seen them before I was introduced to them in a big way this summer when I was working on apps for teachers and students. So now my students see the code below when they log into Blackboard....
- Qr Codes For Homework
Probably today I am going to put three QR codes on a sheet of paper (people who know me will laugh at me using paper) and put it up in my room. Each one of the codes will be tagged to a homework page for each one of my preps. The students...