Anyone who teaches at a public school understands the problem with grading 140+ students homework on a daily basis. If you are like me, you probably collect it, maybe look it over, and give them credit for attempting their homework. Personally, I feel like my homework scores are a bit inflated. I justify this by only making homework 10% of their overall grade and constantly reminding them that their test grades will reflect their efforts.
But what if I could actually gauge their understanding on their homework? What if I had an easy way to check for completion and understanding? Hmmm...wouldn't that be something?
We have at our disposal a number of technological gadgets and gizmos that, to be honest, the students know more about than we do. We have text messaging, google forms and docs, and student "clickers" that sit around collecting dust. Why not take some time to enter the homework answers into a file where students can check their own homework? Why, we could even just pick 2 or 3 problems to check. What a concept!
In response to this epiphany, I would really like to try using technology in some way to force students to check their homework so that we can both see what they get and don't get in a very immediate way. I don't know yet how it will be graded, but that's a detail that can easily be worked out.
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