NEWSPAPER CONTRIBUTION 4

Homework assignments

Nowadays, homework assignments are in the middle of controversy. Some people think that homework is not useful and other think that homework continues being an excellent tool to improve student’s investigation skills.
I my case, I think homeworks does not have to disappear, for me and for my experience like a student, this kind of assignments can make us investigate more about a topic. There are many ways to investigate with homeworks, we can find information in magazines, books, newspaper and in internet. If the student makes consciously his homework and if he checks that all the information that has found is real, he is doing a great job and is doing the right procedure to increase his knowledge. In ULACIT, for example, there are courses with only 2 hours per week, some teachers, like technology ones, give their students homeworks with what they can go beyond they can see in class in two hours that, at the end, class lasts one and a half hour.
Homeworks have some disadvantages too; they are related with the technology and internet. Every time we can see more and more lazy students because internet, technology, video games and other kind of distractions that technology offers. By the other side, we have partners that do not supervise their children homeworks, most of time, they do not know if their kids go to high school or to the university. With internet is very easy to copy and paste information and really fast to finish a homework, the students do not check if the information is the right, they just beg their homework that way. At the end, they do not learn absolutely anything.
I suggest that homeworks have to continue, the focus of them must be the investigation, they must obligate the student to investigate new thing, about new topics and the teachers must check if the student really did it and proving that is not only a copy and paste job. By the other side, education authorities must start to talk about plagiarism in High Schools and must promote investigation in students and motivate them to do it with a special program.