TYLR Homework (Teacher in Your Living Room)
Two of my main goals come together in this:
(1) utilize technology to help students learn
and
(2) make homework as valuable as possible to help students learn
I've found over the yars that homework just isn't as helpful in the mearning process as I'd hoped. Eith students just robotically plugged through it, copied it during study hall or had no idea what they doig on a bunch of it. If a student knows half the material, they'd go home do the HW and get half o it correct. When I handed it back to them [at best] 36 hrs after they did it and went over the answers, it might as well be a lifetime away from the moment when they needed help working toward the correct answers. So I came up with the video hw help.
The gist:
1. Students do the HW as usual.
2. When done (or if they get stuck), they watch a video of me working through that HW assignment, explaining and showing how to answer each question.
3. Students check their own answers with the correct answers that are given. Student answers are marked with a check mark if correct or an X if wrong.
4. HW is handed in as usual.
5. A straight forward HW quiz is given in class on the day it is due, to ensure each student has learned the basic concepts, ideas and skills of the HW.
Here's the 77 videos I've created for the online homework-help videos called TYLR Homework. It takes the concept of the flipped classroom but applies it to homework instead of lecture. So now students use videos to help them do homework at home, which is kinda back to where it started.
Two of my main goals come together in this:
(1) utilize technology to help students learn
and
(2) make homework as valuable as possible to help students learn
I've found over the yars that homework just isn't as helpful in the mearning process as I'd hoped. Eith students just robotically plugged through it, copied it during study hall or had no idea what they doig on a bunch of it. If a student knows half the material, they'd go home do the HW and get half o it correct. When I handed it back to them [at best] 36 hrs after they did it and went over the answers, it might as well be a lifetime away from the moment when they needed help working toward the correct answers. So I came up with the video hw help.
The gist:
1. Students do the HW as usual.
2. When done (or if they get stuck), they watch a video of me working through that HW assignment, explaining and showing how to answer each question.
3. Students check their own answers with the correct answers that are given. Student answers are marked with a check mark if correct or an X if wrong.
4. HW is handed in as usual.
5. A straight forward HW quiz is given in class on the day it is due, to ensure each student has learned the basic concepts, ideas and skills of the HW.
Here's the 77 videos I've created for the online homework-help videos called TYLR Homework. It takes the concept of the flipped classroom but applies it to homework instead of lecture. So now students use videos to help them do homework at home, which is kinda back to where it started.