Homework tedium relieved online
July 30, 2011, Saturday
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CHINESE students always complain about the volume of homework teachers send home with them for the summer vacation break. The Qiangwei Primary School in Minhang has adopted an innovative approach to make the treadmill a little more fun.
Teachers publish homework on an online platform designed by China Telecom, and students download the package, complete the assignments and then upload them back online.
If they have questions, they can ask for help from teachers or classmates through online postings.
The system allows teachers to spoon feed the assignments on a weekly basis to students who might otherwise wait until the last days of school holidays to open their books. Students are required to complete weekly assignments in a timely fashion.
More than 100 grade three students at the school are enrolled in the online program, which will be expanded with time.
Jiang Ju, one of the students in the program, said he found it helpful to be able to seek help while doing homework online. As he spoke, he was working on an assignment related to power savings and electricity meters.
Not all his classmates are happy with the program. Student Kang Wen said it isn't fair that everyone can see the completed assignments online. She thinks others are using the system to copy her answers.
One teacher at the school admitted that some students do look at the work of others because the system was created as an open one to allow sharing of ideas and knowledge.
Every Friday, grade three students in the program have a lesson delivered online. Each student is provided a netbook with Wifi access.
Huang Hairong, a math teacher at the school, said he thinks the online system has a lot of merit.
"It is more efficient than asking the students to write on the blackboard one by one," Huang said.
The system encourages more group participation rather than lessons heavily dependent on teacher lectures.
Teachers publish homework on an online platform designed by China Telecom, and students download the package, complete the assignments and then upload them back online.
If they have questions, they can ask for help from teachers or classmates through online postings.
The system allows teachers to spoon feed the assignments on a weekly basis to students who might otherwise wait until the last days of school holidays to open their books. Students are required to complete weekly assignments in a timely fashion.
More than 100 grade three students at the school are enrolled in the online program, which will be expanded with time.
Jiang Ju, one of the students in the program, said he found it helpful to be able to seek help while doing homework online. As he spoke, he was working on an assignment related to power savings and electricity meters.
Not all his classmates are happy with the program. Student Kang Wen said it isn't fair that everyone can see the completed assignments online. She thinks others are using the system to copy her answers.
One teacher at the school admitted that some students do look at the work of others because the system was created as an open one to allow sharing of ideas and knowledge.
Every Friday, grade three students in the program have a lesson delivered online. Each student is provided a netbook with Wifi access.
Huang Hairong, a math teacher at the school, said he thinks the online system has a lot of merit.
"It is more efficient than asking the students to write on the blackboard one by one," Huang said.
The system encourages more group participation rather than lessons heavily dependent on teacher lectures.
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