4. Typical Beliefs about
Homework
Serves to extend learning beyond classroom
Intellectual ability is intrinsically more valuable than
nonintellectual
Homework teaches responsibility (or obedience?)
Lots of homework is consistent with rigorous program
Good teachers give HW and good students do it
5. What the Research Says?
Amount of time spent on homework is positively
correlated to achievement
Homework appears to be more effective for older
students (15+)
As more variables are controlled for, + correlation is
diminished
There appears to be an optimum amount of HW at
each grade level
6. Tenets of Learning
Quality teaching matters
Skills require practice
Time on task matters (we might need to redefine the tasks )
Quality of task is as important as time
Learning is individual
Children differ in readiness and developmental level
Children differ in learning styles
Children differ in motivation, persistence, and organizational skills (executive
function)
Frustration is detrimental to motivation and desire to learn
Homework that is not completed does not help learning
7. What about Grading?
Once the number is
attached the learning
stops
Grade should reflect
learning not behavior
8. We must
ask:
Why don’t they do their
homework?
What is the effect on future
learning?
How do I meet the needs of
individual learners?
THERE AREN’T EASY
ANSWERS!
9. Value Added
HW
Needs to be done to be
successful
Doesn’t cause frustration
Enhances the classroom
experience
Meets each student where they
are
Has a student Hook
No Option to Take a Zero –
Must Be Done
11. Consider HW as Formative Assessment
Feedback over Grading
Use to determine lesson plan as
much as to assess students
Google Forms + Fubaroo
Classroom Collaborize
LMS Forums
Learning Logs – Blog/Google
Docs
12. Drill and Practice
Electronically Provided Feedback
Quia
WebAssign
Moodle/Haiku/Canvas
Schoology
WolframAlpha
Hippocampus
13. Differentiating HW
Homework tasks that
are too difficult are a
major demotivator
(Tomlinson 2003,
Vatterott 2003)
Diigo
Graphic Organizers
Mindomo
SpiderScribe
Bubbl.us
Note:Boring is bad too-
16. Peer Review
Round Robin
Only need a shared space to Edit
Google Docs with Comments
Word with Comments
17. Self Assessment
A move to metacognition
•Portfolios
•Online Journals/Learning Blogs
•Google Forms – Daily Update
•Key Idea
•What you struggled with
•Question you still have or skill
you need to work on
18. A Radical Change
Move the Lecture and Tutorial to HW
Podcasting (2)
Screencasting
Tegrity Lite
iTunes U
Open Source Courses
20. Attributes
• Provide content delivery- lectures,
notes, things students usually sit and
get- for homework
• Use class time for collaborative work
and challenge problems
• Teacher centered at home Student
centered at school
21. History
• Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Smith
– Pre-vodcasting
– Flipped Classroom
• Karl Fisch and Daniel Pink
