It's a much different world than it was even 10 years ago, when I was in school. I help raise my 14 year old nice and most of her non-math homework tends to be

It's a much different world than it was even 10 years ago, when I was in school. I help raise my 14 year old nice and most of her non-math homework tends to be typing questions directly into Google, and writing the first thing that makes sense. Sometimes we check her work, find that obvious, and discuss the answer. Sometimes we don't. The Googling of answers has caused many problems with vocabulary words, where the words have slightly (or even vastly) different applications to different domains. If she gets something wrong, she quickly moves onto the next subject without much reflection, because homework is usually graded on completeness (rather than accuracy). From what she says, they rarely review homework in class, so they never revisit subject areas that are problematic. My #1 criticism with homework is that it's a tool that is used for reenforcement, but that sometimes the wrong methods/ideas/facts are reenforced.