https://padlet.com/mswinford/ie2adt7h9y08 Using Homework en-us 2017-02-06 21:17:24 UTC 2025-12-18 15:22:46 UTC hello@padlet.com mswinford https://padlet.com/mswinford/ie2adt7h9y08/wish/151981374 Intro: When used appropriately rather than regularly, homework can be a very useful tool for practicing procedural skills or for deepening understanding of new content. This element involves teachers using homework for independent practice or to prompt students to elaborate on information.]]> 2017-02-06 21:22:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mswinford/ie2adt7h9y08/wish/151981374 mswinford https://padlet.com/mswinford/ie2adt7h9y08/wish/151982706

Preview Homework

Homework to deepen knowledge.

Homework to practice a process or skill.

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Before introducing a new concept in class, the teacher can assign students texts, media pieces, or creative projects that will briefly acquaint them with the material.

Teachers might require students to record their reflections, observations, or questions about the preview homework to discuss in class the next day.  

Technology Enhancement

• Screencasting Software (Jing, ScreenChomp, Educreations, TouchCast)
  • Create multimedia screencasts of new content that students can view before the start of a lesson.
• Multimedia Recording Tools
  • Use digital video tools on tablets, smartphones, or document cameras to create video tutorials that allow students to preview new content or skills.
• Prerecorded Video Lessons
  • These videos can enhance student engagement in preview homework.
  • These videos can come from content websites (Khan Academy).
  • Students can post their comments about these videos to show their understanding, which can also encourage whole-class discussion.

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Pushes students to use higher-order thinking skills to develop their understanding of the content.

Such cognitive skills include comparing and contrasting, classifying, creating analogies, and evaluating the content.

Teachers should confirm that students are well-versed in the content before assigning homework to deepen knowledge.

Technology Enhancement

• Online Scavenger Hunts (TED)
  • These activities prompt students to explore, compare, and contrast, classify, or evaluate content-related videos, images, or tutorials.
  • Once again students can compare and contrast videos on content websites and critique the quality and helpfulness of each video.  
  • Once they have completed the process, then they can create a rubric or scale for evaluating the resources they find and consider ways they can be improved.
• Multimedia Tools
  • They can use these to gather non-linguistic representations of knowledge and create visual analogies.
  • Students can use devices such as cameras on tablets, or smartphones to create collages that relate to the instructional content.  
  • Then students could use websites like Pinterest to categorize the images.  
  • Using the class website, students could post hyperlinks to their visual collages.
  • Finally, students can post constructive comments on their classmates visual analogies.

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This process or skill can be used once students have demonstrated that they can independently use procedural knowledge to carry out a process in class.

Practicing a series of steps outside of class increases students' speed, fluency, and accuracy in performing processes and skills.

Technology Enhancement

• Recording Devices
  • Students can enhance their fluency with a new process of skill by recording themselves.
• Digital Video Tools (Smartphones)
  • Students can film themselves practicing and narrating how a process works.
• Screencasting Software (Jing, ScreenChomp, Educreations, TouchCast)
  • Students can use these to create screencasts that explain how they solve problems.
• Video Storage Sites (Vimeo or YouTube)
  • Students can upload their videos and post hyperlinks to them on the class website.
  • Then students can comment on their own videos, as well as, their classmates.

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Make sure that technology is available to the whole class.

Make sure students have access to many online tools like Jing, ScreenChomp, Educreations, TED, YouTube and TouchCast

Students need to be able to access Pinterest and know how to use it.

Students need to have access to tablets or smartphones.

Make sure to have a class website available.

Get feedback from your students to see what strategies are working well.

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