The last blog of the semester! After a few weeks of stressful online classes I am definitely looking forward to a summer without homework. Considering that homework has been the main stressor in my life for the past few weeks I decided to blog about it. Yes, a homework blog about homework.
There have been a few recent studies that show that homework handed out to kids in grades kindergarten through 6th grade could actually do them more harm than good. Not only is it an added stressor in a young child’s life, but it also cuts into family time at home. After a day of work or school, parents usually want to come home and spend time with their children, not spend the whole evening doing homework until bedtime.
According to this website “Parents who were surveys say that they agree with the work ethic homework promotes, but it seriously cuts into valuable family time for many families, as parents are left to help their children with the ‘evil deed’ that their teachers assigned.”
If you think about it, in elementary school and high school, many students are up at 7 in the morning and are at school until 3:30 pm. Then it is expected that they go home and do a few hours of homework? No wonder more and more students are getting burnt out.
Honestly, I can say I really didn’t get much out of homework. I am not saying that because I hate doing it (which is also true) but honestly, most of my learning was done in the classroom in elementary, middle, and high school where a teacher was there if I had questions. I had a job in high school and when I would get home at 10:30 p.m. the last thing I would want to do is stay up until 1 a.m. doing homework and then getting up at 7 to go back to school the next day.
I believe homework is necessary in college, (some people disagree) but I also think the amount we have had at VCSU the past few weeks has been insane. The majority of my days have been taken up by literally hours upon hours of homework.
ENJOY your summer now that we are homework free!
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Monday, May 4, 2009
The Next Craze: Twitter
These past few weeks have been quite a change for me. I am use to working a fair amount during the week after having class all day, then coming home and doing homework, and hardly having any time to do anything else. Since the flood pretty much kicked me out of Valley, I have been home in Sheldon, a tiny little town in North Dakota. My job cut back many hours due to lack of business, so I have not been working for the past 2 weeks, this week will be the third. I have got to spend some time watching some of my favorite daytime talk shows, and many late night ones as well that I usually miss.
It seems Ellen, Oprah, Jay, and Chelsea Handler alllllllllllll mention the same thing during their shows: Twitter. EVERYONE is talking about twitter. It seems (to me anyway) to have popped up overnight. The websites popularity has grown crazily. Everyone who is anyone “tweets”.
According to Wikipedia, Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users' updates known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length which are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have subscribed to them (known as followers).
I think it is so funny that something like this is brought up in daily conversation and on these talk shows. These famous people refer to “tweeting” almost daily. Just think what Johnny Carson would say! It is interesting to see how Twitter has changed the lives of people.
We have become so dependent on technology. Today, I have spent almost all day on my computer doing homework. Between Facebook, MSN messenger, and my cell phone I have talked to about six of my friends. None face to face or even on the phone. It is amazing how popular texts and Facebook and most recently Twitter, have become. I am not yet on Twitter, but perhaps it will only be a matter of time.
Talking about an advance in technology, our school comes to mind. Today, our entire college is able to take all classes online to finish the school year. That is amazing (but frustrating and stressful) that this is even an option.
It seems Ellen, Oprah, Jay, and Chelsea Handler alllllllllllll mention the same thing during their shows: Twitter. EVERYONE is talking about twitter. It seems (to me anyway) to have popped up overnight. The websites popularity has grown crazily. Everyone who is anyone “tweets”.
According to Wikipedia, Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users' updates known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length which are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have subscribed to them (known as followers).
I think it is so funny that something like this is brought up in daily conversation and on these talk shows. These famous people refer to “tweeting” almost daily. Just think what Johnny Carson would say! It is interesting to see how Twitter has changed the lives of people.
We have become so dependent on technology. Today, I have spent almost all day on my computer doing homework. Between Facebook, MSN messenger, and my cell phone I have talked to about six of my friends. None face to face or even on the phone. It is amazing how popular texts and Facebook and most recently Twitter, have become. I am not yet on Twitter, but perhaps it will only be a matter of time.
Talking about an advance in technology, our school comes to mind. Today, our entire college is able to take all classes online to finish the school year. That is amazing (but frustrating and stressful) that this is even an option.
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