All teachers must be very careful in giving beneficial homework(s) and marking them accordingly !
" Homework teaches students about time management. Homework teaches students how to set priorities. Homework helps teachers determine how well the lessons are being understood by their students. Homework teaches students how to problem solve. Homework gives student another opportunity to review class material. Homework gives parents a chance to see what is being learned in school. Homework teaches students how to take responsibility for their part in the educational process. Homework teaches students that they may have to do things—even if they don’t want to. Homework teaches students to work independently. Homework teaches students the importance of planning, staying organized, and taking action."
from : https://www.fldoe.org/core/fileparse.php/16301/urlt/10BenHomework.pdf
At a minimum the work should be paraphrased even if it is open book, or the internet is allowed. Using the internet is not much different than looking up answers in the text (except it is easy in the sense of physically finding answers, actually looking in a textbook, or going to library to do the actual search for the materials to be used requires more work). Requiring proper references is I think important. Not sure what can be done to curb the use of technology. I think going back to the days of oral quizzes, nothing on the desk, no notes, books or access to the internet. You can learn by searching for answers, but only if you read what you find or try to understand what you found. There is a solution, no technology in the classroom and homework is done on certain days of the week in class. Three days of lecture, two days of working on assignments. And require all homework done outside of class to be handwritten, this forces the students to copy by hand whatever they found and forces them to read it at the same time, and include references in the homework. Of course making them write more or to go deep would force them to learn. In other words they have to verify what they are saying backing it up with more than one reference. This is done in colleges and graduate school, so if the work is easy to do, then require them to do more and show how they came to that conclusion. For example, anyone can use a calculator, now show me your work. If you want to use someone else's work, does it mean its correct? Prove that is it.
Todas las tareas que no implican un aprendizaje son frustrantes para cualquier persona y con frecuencia, se suele tener problema incluso al parafrasear. Si a esto se añade que no se sabe citar ni referenciar, el aprendizaje para el alumno es nulo.
Indeed, we meant study cases in the pre-university school stages, so the duty should be accomplished inside the classroom, but in the university stage, the situation is completely different, where the student assumes the role of the information seeker in a partial and simple way, and he must mention the source of the information to consolidate the concept of intellectual property rights
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