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> The thing is: homework can be a rather powerful tool for learning. Not for everyone. Once you've understood something, doing it 10 times won't help. Especial
by arkh 7y ago
> The thing is: homework can be a rather powerful tool for learning.
Not for everyone. Once you've understood something, doing it 10 times won't help. Especially if you could do something more fun on the side.
I think it is just a symptom of the inability of teachers to adapt their teaching to their students. Some children will be able to learn something if it is presented some way. For the other? Just make them do homework, don't try to present things another way.
> They provide an easy interface for parents to help their kids.
Which is a good way to amplify the problems for people whom parents can't afford the time or never got the education to be able to help.
- choeger 7y ago> Not for everyone. Except for some rare counterexamples, it does. > Once you've understood something, doing it 10 times won't help. That is simply not true. Repitition helps to strengthen memory. Even if you understand something now, it does not necessarily mean you will still understand it tomorrow or next week. Repitition as a homework is actually a simple and efficient method to increase the likelihood that knowledge will be remembered. > Which is a good way to amplify the problems for people whom parents can't afford the time or never got the education to be able to help. This is also quite wrong. Do you really think it helps children that suffer from a lack of parental support if more children artificially suffer the same? Children need every little bit of support they can get.