Online homework is also useful for reading comprehension.
The online curriculum provides the appropriate remedy at a keystroke.
Online homework shows the teacher her student’s strengths and weaknesses at a glance. Online instruction provides immediate feedback that can guide students and their teachers toward gaps in fundamental concepts or operations that need to be filled. The student might understand the formula, but if she can’t manipulate signed numbers she’ll still get the wrong answer. A wrong answer might be due to a simple skill deficit, such as weakness in signed numbers. One student might use the algebraic formula while another might be more comfortable counting spaces on a graph.
Students might not understand the formula, or they might apply it incorrectly. There are many ways to teach most topics and many reasons why a student might give an incorrect answer. JFY Net’s structured, supported, differentiated online instruction promotes deeper understanding by meeting individual student needs so that learning doesn’t get blocked by cognitive barriers. The three key components are immediate feedback, spaced intervals between assignments, and follow-up problems throughout the semester. The JFY Net blended skill building programs provide an ideal platform for cognitive intervention. For example, one study of teachers who assigned technology-based homework linked their students’ improved performance on final exams to the way the teachers structured the homework ccording to the principles of cognitive intervention ( Butler, Marsh, Slavinsky et al., Educ Psychol Rev (2014) 26: 331). They use techniques that reinforce daily lessons while promoting deeper understanding through application and differentiated instruction. They want homework to drive deeper understanding of concepts. Today’s teachers don’t want reinforcement to be merely repetitious.
In simpler times, homework required no more than rote repetition of concepts taught in class. The value of homework is the subject of longstanding debate among educators. By Joan Reissman, Blended Learning Specialist
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