Reddit Homework Book UPDATED
MUNEHARU KAMADA
I'll be honest: I am overwhelmed and confused by the amount of discourse around homework. On the one hand, it provides students with opportunities for practice outside of the classroom, which is necessary for classes where students essentially learn a skill (music, math, etc.). But on the other hand, it causes anxiety and undue stress, particularly in students who have jobs and don't have much time to do HW as a result.
An earlier thread in this subreddit helped point me to more "modern" Daft Punk similar artists, like Cherokee and Uppermost, which is fantastic, but I'm looking for the spirit of old school Daft Punk. I've searched pretty exhaustively but there's so much EDM out there now that it's really hard to dig through the lame stuff to find smaller artists that may fit this bill.
I fucking hate homework so much, Homework is like a even shitty sequel to a shitty movie, imagine having a long day at school, hand cramping and toil, and you go back home to rest, and next thing you know you got to sit in your desk, looking at a piece of paper with questions like "little Timmy has 5 apples, he eats 6 of them, calculate the mass of his mamas ass" and your sitting there for hours having no clue whatsoever and your bored and your tired, But you must finish your Homework no matter what, And I get homework every single day, 2 to 3 homeworks a day, and I even get homework on the weekends, that is bullshit, the weekends is not an excuse for extra homework, that is bullshit, I'd rather get in trouble than do it, it's a waste of my time and life, and you even get this thing called infractions, there are behavioral infractions, and homework infractions and there's another, but I don't know what it was, 3 Infractions is a reminder to your parents, 6 infractions I don't know, but 9 infractions is iss I'm not sure, when I got home I couldn't find my homework and guess what? Infraction. Another time, I accidentally left it in my desk Infraction One time that happened to me again, luckily I had a substitute, she was nice enough let me finish the homework. Teachers don't even understand we have lives outside of school, the teachers think we are robots, And teachers can just chill at home relaxing while we are busting our asses every day and every night, in conclusion, Homework is bullshit and should be abolished
Ok so I do not want to start a debate on whether homework is or isn't good, a must etc... what I would like to discuss is your thoughts on it. If you give it, How often? For what purpose? How much? Do you feel pressured to give homework by parents in your district? Or the board? If you don't? Why?
I do not give homework. I feel that what my students do in school is more than enough and that they need a break from it as we all do from our jobs. I do encourage review if a concept was hard so they can come prepared with questions but I very rarely explicitly assign homework. Even when I do it's usually something starred in class that I would like completed for the next. I also have seen my own daughter with so much homework and with extracurricular activities and other out of school interests she has little time to spend with homework. What I've observed from most families nowadays is the constant come and go to this practice or that recital and I feel this is equally important for kid's learning and development. And what about kids with little activities? Well time spent with family is also important. Now I am aware that this isn't the case 100% of the time but I'm still form on my belief that kids need time away from the school learning. So, what are your thoughts?
I have a few simple things to do in LaTex, which I plan to use in place of LibreOffice until they fix some accessibility issues I am encountering with Orca. The few needs I have are relatively simple, conceptually speaking. First, what documentclass is available for basic homework assignments. Namely, the homework would consist of a name and date at the center of the pages, answers to a numbered list of questions, and maybe a few paragraphs. Secondly, is it possible to embed graphics in a LaTex document? If so, how? Lastly, what is the best mathematics package? Thanks for any information that you can share!
I've looked everywhere and I've tried many, many apps already. I may actually do a mini-review of each one later on, but for now I just want to list what I want from a homework application and hopefully someone can help me solve my issue! I'm currently working on learning java and making my way into android development, but I'm no where near ready to make my own application, otherwise I'd try to make my own app.
These are the things I need/want in an homework app for school. If someone has a set-up that does all these things with a current app that doesn't "technically" support the features, that works too! Does not have to be specifically a school/homework app - calendar or whatever other types of apps are fine as well!
I've posted a similar request in r/androidapps but didn't get many responses. I apologize if this isn't the correct subreddit, but the other android subreddits don't get quite as many views and I've been looking for way too long already.
TL;DR - Looking for an app to help me organize homework/school life. Tried many, none fit the bill. Willing to use dedicated homework/school apps or calendars, or whatever else that works out nicely. I'm also kind of picky.
Before going too much further I will warn that these are a little hand crafted for my campaign. That is to say that I have my players leave the campus semi-frequently to go on adventures outside of the Strixhaven book (sorry to the fans, but I think Strixhaven is really lacking in the dungeon crawl that I and my players enjoy). With that in mind, the homework given by Osgir for Archaeomancy ended up taking my players to an Elvish forest plagued by Yaun-Ti that had taken over and desecrated a temple, if you don't want to run outside of Strixhaven Osgir's homework does somewhat account for that. For Fain's homework section there is an optional adventure that took my players to an abandoned wizard tower in the same Evlish forest, that the late Prof. Anherst was giving private lessons out of. However, following his death at Strixhaven and non-return to the tower an evil necromancer student of his, Artemis, took over the tower and is using her dead colleagues as undead thralls. My players ended up completing the first year of Strixhaven at level 5, that is different from the book and I'll have to change later adventures to give them some more challenge, but Strixhaven really doesn't give you a lot to play with... Either way, if you're not interested in Fain's quest just don't prompt it.
Okay.. I know the introduction is a little out there and we haven't even gotten to the homework but are you really reading D&D homebrew if it doesn't come off a little bit like a madman's ramblings?
With a slow and deliberate voice of a wise instructor Willowdusk explains that each student should see themselves in the shrub: a mere sapling waiting in anticipation to absorb all that you can. The shrubs, just like students, are not so easy to raise despite this eagerness. Each group of students receive their own shrub, alternatively Willowdusk allows the shrubs to choose the group (this is just flavor and has no mechanical benefit, but its cute and players will probably like either way, describe them as adorable). Some of the shrubs resemble succulents, while others are pine and birch seedlings. She explains that the homework is to have the shrub named, healthy, and with at least one new skill learned, and that you will be graded not only on the health of the shrub but also the skill learned.
Homework isn't as simple as just making it less. There are people who feel they have too much homework and then there are people who say that there is nothing to do (Most likely alluding to alt heavy rosters vs alt light rosters).
Overall I feel like this is a great improvement in sentiment from when the response to homework was just "This is the bare minimum we should have". And personally, I feel that while reducing homework would be a great solution, it would be a short-term one as people will just keep asking for less and less. The solution should be to make the content fun so that people want to spend time doing it and I think this is what they're thinking as well.
If we want individuals to be able to stand up to predatory jobs and prioritize their mental health and relationships outside of work, we need to stop expecting kids to put in ridiculous amounts of time into school work outside of school hours. We also need to stop penalizing kids grades for not doing homework - especially when they are proficient in the subject.
I am a therapist. To most of my patients I give homework assignments to monitor their behaviors, irrational beliefs and unwanted thoughts. Assignments usually work with a type of therapy that focuses in cognition and behavior (i.e. CBT or DBT). This type of psychotherapy is heavily validated by research and insurance institutions love it because it can be measured. Psychoanalysis, client-centered and humanistic therapy (amongst others) do not rely so heavily on homework assignments, but just talking. I love all modalities of treatment; however I am finding it hard for my patients to do the homework, and without it, cognitive and behavioral treatments do not work. Can anyone tell me what you think or feel about your therapist giving you homework? Do you actually do it? If not, why? No judgment, just curious. Maybe I am trying to find a way to motivate my patients into actually doing it, or maybe I am thinking about using that type of therapy less. Thanks!
As a quick sidebar, I think the number of students who cheat or copy off of each other are a symptom of students missing the point of the assigned homework-- they see it as a bar to getting through the class rather than asking them to carve out some time to practice problems and better understand the material. Assigning or not assigning them homework won't help and I wonder if making homework a voluntary exercise would improve their attitude towards homework to where they might actually work on it on their own if not put into a situation where they are FORCED to do it. I also see students who turn in answers but no work making me think they are using sites like Symbolab or WolframAlpha. I've told them I wouldn't grade assignments that did not show work and given them zeroes on those assignments-- it still doesn't deter this behavior.
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