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I see homework and practice as two different activities. Practice needs intentionality and dedication, and you need a short feedback loop to decide if you're do
by makeitdouble 3y ago
I see homework and practice as two different activities. Practice needs intentionality and dedication, and you need a short feedback loop to decide if you're doing it well or not, with repetition until you get it right.
I rarely see homework going along these line.
Interestingly, there's practice books for exams, which can help a lot if you do them under your own control.
- lolinder 3y ago> you need a short feedback loop to decide if you're doing it well or not This is crucial. Without a short feedback loop you're not practicing, you're just doing take home quizzes. The best teachers that I had would assign only odd-numbered problems as homework so you could check your work in the back of the book. In classes where they didn't do that, I usually "cheated" by plugging the problem into Wolfram Alpha or similar, because I knew that learning what I did wrong after we'd already moved on to the next unit would be pointless.
- data-ottawa 3y agoFor feedback loops, I found study groups to be very very useful in university. Reflecting on high school it seems weird they weren’t used more often. After trying a problem on your own, taking your results and collaborating with peers is a one of the best ways to learn. Sometimes you have to assume the role of teacher and share your idea, which requires you to really understand it.
- makeitdouble 3y agoSome middle and high schools do that. When we looked into it they were very expensive...
- data-ottawa 3y agoI guess that’s good to hear. I know the fact that you meet essentially every kind of person in school is a good thing, but I never fit the mould of learning the way school taught, so providing more diverse ways of learning I think could be a big boon to education.