Abraxiel [any]

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Cake day: July 29th, 2020

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  • This is all to my fallible recollection.

    I remember having to do a research project in middle school. We all got shuffled into the computer lab to start researching a topic to ultimately write an essay or presentation or some such on. The problem for me was that I was kind of blindsided by it.

    I all of a sudden had to not only learn how to use a scholarly database to find good information on a topic, but had to pick a topic as a preteen that was interesting and had information available to digest. I don’t remember what I ended up doing.

    There were other instances of this in my pre-university education though that went better, with more constrained topics or scope.





  • I think this is something that isn’t an on/off issue. Homework is important. There simply isn’t enough time in class (at least in US public schooingl) to do retention work and give a lecture. Reading assignments all but have to be given in order to efficiently give instruction and for things like maths, repetition of problem solving is super valuable. Even the practice of working through material on their own is in itself important for people learning.

    At the same time, I’ve definitely had to do bullshit busywork worksheets or had classes that assigned too much homework to comfortably finish in combination with other courses.