Saturday, 30 May 2015

Is giving homework a right thing to do? (Re-do work)



 Running head: Creating an Online Course 


Creating an Online Course

Landiwe Mkhize

Concordia University

EDCI 571

29 May


 Running head: Creating an Online Course 


Creating an Online Course

Landiwe Mkhize

Concordia University

EDCI 571

29 May

2016





Creating an Online Course
Title: Is giving homework a right thing to do?
Topics: 1. Listen to story. LISTEN and SPEAK about traditional stories, realistic stories, personal     account, and adventures.
            2.  Read story, READ fictions and non-fictions,  Informational text, and transactional texts
                                   EXPRESSES thoughts and feelings  
 GIVE personal opinion
Objectives:  re-write and sequence story, make predictions and expresses thoughts and feelings.
Audience: Learners-grade level 4-7, teachers, and parents
Form of instruction: Reading an Viewing
Form: postcard
Form of assessment:
Some online assessment is apt to be a close-ended question such as multiple choice, format where you click on the answer and hit a submit key”, (Draves, 2013, p. 61).
1.      Discussions.  Short questions; short paragraphs
2.      Investigation
  ISTE Standards .T
Since this is an online learning, Planning and designing earning environments and experiences. “Teachers plan and design effective learning environment and experiences supported by technology” (ISTE Standards .T, 2000). In this learning student will interact with the teacher or to one another on the website using cell phone which is the most convenience tool and every one can easily access on it.
Social, ethical, legal, and human issues are also an important factor. I will draw netiquette for my students that will help everyone to interact freely without sensitive language that will make them fear of cyberspace or cyber bulling.
ISTE standards .S
Basic operation and concept. “Some students demonstrate a sound understanding of the nature and operation of technology system,” (ISTE Standards, 1998). By using technological tool like cell phones or computers, students are engage in the word of technology. They learn new concepts and vocabulary. They use these vocabulary to express their feelings and in communication.
Technology communication tools. ”Students use telecommunications to collaborate publish. And interact with peers, expects, and other audiences”,(ISTE Standards’, 2008). Students will collaborate with others share information, interact with one another. When they have mastered the skill it will be fun and develop their interaction spreading to among peers, parents and audience responses



Title: Is giving homework the right thing to do?
“Let us not be content to work and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right thing happened”.
-----Haraco Mann

Introduction
Consider yourself as a scholar, or a parent, or a teacher, you are given an opportunity to argue about giving homework to learners, what would you say? You are going to read few extracts about some other people views on homework at school. Maybe you did experience the problem of learners giving some funny excuses of not doing homework. Some other educators have decided to let the learners do homework at school because they do not do it at home. Is it still homework? Is it still serving the purpose? You are going to discuss about this topic giving its pros and cons.
Content
Homework is the work that is carried by students from school to finish it at home during their free time. Actually it is the extension of work they did at school. Many schools, colleges, FETs, and Universities do give homework to their students. Forms of homework vary from completion of work done, to assignments, and even projects. The primary aim of homework is to give a parent a picture of what is happening at school and to involve the parent in the education of his/her child. It is confusing though when you find a student given homework of the new work that is not yet done at school. You may ask yourself, who is going to introduce or teach this work to student? Is it a parent? Those are one of the things that made student and parents feel that homework is a burden and a nuisance.
Giving homework is good. Some people have a positive ideas debating about homework. One said homework enhances the student’s capacity to understand the subject better, (Debate.org n.d.). Another principal cause for giving homework is making students to be much more aware of their learning, (Debate.org). Some people have a negative opinion about giving homework. One student said “One of the biggest thing that cause stress (as a student) is homework. Taking many advanced classes, I get more than a reasonable amount of homework”, (Debate.org n.d.). Read more about people’s debate on giving homework at www.debate.org . Actually homework is not a stress. What stresses students is timing on giving homework and a lot amount of it. Teachers just flood students with homework and student found them stuck in the poll of homework instead of enjoying their free time. We sometime give homework even during beaks (holidays). “Students need to enjoy their breaks and think for other things of their interest” (Thoughts of teaching, 2006). Teacher should work collaboratively when giving students homework and draw school or grade homework time table. Do we ever think of illiterate parents when giving students homework, worse with unclear instruction? I am teaching grade four in an urban school. This is what I usually received, the excuses of not doing homework. “There was no one to help me at home”. “I was afraid to travel a kilometer to my neighbor, it was already at dawn there s no one to help me at home”.  Sometimes homework put student’s life at risk.
References
Debate.org (n. d.). Should schools give homework? Retrieved from www.debate,org/opinions/should-schools-give-homework
Thought of Teaching, (2006). Homework during breaks? Retrieved from www.toddseal.com/rodin/2006/01/o8/homework-during-break/

Objectives
Candidate will: Gain exposure on various opinions about giving homework at schools. The advantages and disadvantages of homework.                                                                                                       
Provide additional insight about the value of giving homework and how they should make it work to students.
Required studies
The candidates should read the following websites;
Ten Reasons to Get Rid of Homework, (and Five Alternatives), John, 2011. http://www.spencerideas.org/2011/09/ten-reasons-to-get-rid-of-homework-and.html
The Right Way to do Math Homework (Always learn: 2013). http://blogs.psychcentral.com/always.learn/2013/the-right-way-to-do-math-homework
Homework harmful or helpful. (eduflow: 2013). https://eduflow.wordpress.com/2013/10/03/homework-hamful-or-helpful/

Assessment
Due date: 29 May 2015
Discuss about the topic: Is giving homework a right thing to do? And post you discussion onto a dashboard.

Instructions to candidates; After reading the required studies, Discuss about the following questions. When answering you may give evidence about you personal experience and give a citation to consolidate your argument. Use proper APA citing when referring. When you are finished, post your work to the relevant dashboard blogger.
Questions:
1.      What is homework?
2.      Is giving homework still of value? Discuss about the advantages and disadvantages of giving homework.
3.      If you still believe in homework, what can be done to make it work?
4.      If homework shifts, according to your opinion what can be done instead of giving homework?
Write you work on Word Document, copy and paste it to Discussion board and submit you work.

2016






Creating an Online Course
Title: Is giving homework a right thing to do?
Topics: 1. Listen to story. LISTEN and SPEAK about traditional stories, realistic stories, personal     account, and adventures.
            2.  Read story, READ fictions and non-fictions,  Informational text, and transactional texts
                                   EXPRESSES thoughts and feelings  
 GIVE personal opinion
Objectives:  re-write and sequence story, make predictions and expresses thoughts and feelings.
Audience: Learners-grade level 4-7, teachers, and parents
Form of instruction: Reading an Viewing
Form: postcard
Form of assessment:
Some online assessment is apt to be a close-ended question such as multiple choice, format where you click on the answer and hit a submit key”, (Draves, 2013, p. 61).
1.      Discussions.  Short questions; short paragraphs
2.      Investigation
  ISTE Standards .T
Since this is an online learning, Planning and designing earning environments and experiences. “Teachers plan and design effective learning environment and experiences supported by technology” (ISTE Standards .T, 2000). In this learning student will interact with the teacher or to one another on the website using cell phone which is the most convenience tool and every one can easily access on it.
Social, ethical, legal, and human issues are also an important factor. I will draw netiquette for my students that will help everyone to interact freely without sensitive language that will make them fear of cyberspace or cyber bulling.
ISTE standards .S
Basic operation and concept. “Some students demonstrate a sound understanding of the nature and operation of technology system,” (ISTE Standards, 1998). By using technological tool like cell phones or computers, students are engage in the word of technology. They learn new concepts and vocabulary. They use these vocabulary to express their feelings and in communication.
Technology communication tools. ”Students use telecommunications to collaborate publish. And interact with peers, expects, and other audiences”,(ISTE Standards’, 2008). Students will collaborate with others share information, interact with one another. When they have mastered the skill it will be fun and develop their interaction spreading to among peers, parents and audience responses



Title: Is giving homework the right thing to do?
“Let us not be content to work and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right thing happened”.
-----Haraco Mann

Introduction
Consider yourself as a scholar, or a parent, or a teacher, you are given an opportunity to argue about giving homework to learners, what would you say? You are going to read few extracts about some other people views on homework at school. Maybe you did experience the problem of learners giving some funny excuses of not doing homework. Some other educators have decided to let the learners do homework at school because they do not do it at home. Is it still homework? Is it still serving the purpose? You are going to discuss about this topic giving its pros and cons.
Content
Homework is the work that is carried by students from school to finish it at home during their free time. Actually it is the extension of work they did at school. Many schools, colleges, FETs, and Universities do give homework to their students. Forms of homework vary from completion of work done, to assignments, and even projects. The primary aim of homework is to give a parent a picture of what is happening at school and to involve the parent in the education of his/her child. It is confusing though when you find a student given homework of the new work that is not yet done at school. You may ask yourself, who is going to introduce or teach this work to student? Is it a parent? Those are one of the things that made student and parents feel that homework is a burden and a nuisance.
Giving homework is good. Some people have a positive ideas debating about homework. One said homework enhances the student’s capacity to understand the subject better, (Debate.org n.d.). Another principal cause for giving homework is making students to be much more aware of their learning, (Debate.org). Some people have a negative opinion about giving homework. One student said “One of the biggest thing that cause stress (as a student) is homework. Taking many advanced classes, I get more than a reasonable amount of homework”, (Debate.org n.d.). Read more about people’s debate on giving homework at www.debate.org . Actually homework is not a stress. What stresses students is timing on giving homework and a lot amount of it. Teachers just flood students with homework and student found them stuck in the poll of homework instead of enjoying their free time. We sometime give homework even during beaks (holidays). “Students need to enjoy their breaks and think for other things of their interest” (Thoughts of teaching, 2006). Teacher should work collaboratively when giving students homework and draw school or grade homework time table. Do we ever think of illiterate parents when giving students homework, worse with unclear instruction? I am teaching grade four in an urban school. This is what I usually received, the excuses of not doing homework. “There was no one to help me at home”. “I was afraid to travel a kilometer to my neighbor, it was already at dawn there s no one to help me at home”.  Sometimes homework put student’s life at risk.
References
Debate.org (n. d.). Should schools give homework? Retrieved from www.debate,org/opinions/should-schools-give-homework
Thought of Teaching, (2006). Homework during breaks? Retrieved from www.toddseal.com/rodin/2006/01/o8/homework-during-break/

Objectives
Candidate will: Gain exposure on various opinions about giving homework at schools. The advantages and disadvantages of homework.                                                                                                       
Provide additional insight about the value of giving homework and how they should make it work to students.
Required studies
The candidates should read the following websites;
Ten Reasons to Get Rid of Homework, (and Five Alternatives), John, 2011. http://www.spencerideas.org/2011/09/ten-reasons-to-get-rid-of-homework-and.html
The Right Way to do Math Homework (Always learn: 2013). http://blogs.psychcentral.com/always.learn/2013/the-right-way-to-do-math-homework
Homework harmful or helpful. (eduflow: 2013). https://eduflow.wordpress.com/2013/10/03/homework-hamful-or-helpful/

Assessment
Due date: 29 May 2015
Discuss about the topic: Is giving homework a right thing to do? And post you discussion onto a dashboard.

Instructions to candidates; After reading the required studies, Discuss about the following questions. When answering you may give evidence about you personal experience and give a citation to consolidate your argument. Use proper APA citing when referring. When you are finished, post your work to the relevant dashboard blogger.
Questions:
1.      What is homework?
2.      Is giving homework still of value? Discuss about the advantages and disadvantages of giving homework.
3.      If you still believe in homework, what can be done to make it work?
4.      If homework shifts, according to your opinion what can be done instead of giving homework?
Write you work on Word Document, copy and paste it to Discussion board and submit you work.

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