Home Learning 2010 - Pros and Cons
For the two days, 1st and 2nd of March, we do not need to go to school as we had home learning. Just like last year, due to the outbreak of H1N1 flu, we had to stay at home for a few days for home learning too. I would like to share my view on the pros and cons of this home learning activity.
Most of you may wonder what is home learning about. Students get to stay at home and complete the online packages posted by the teachers on their websites. They are also provided online resources such as websites and attachments which contain notes.
As a student, I feel that it is quite relaxing for us during home learning. We can wake up at a later time and do the assignments at our own pace. This makes us less stressed and less tiring. Depending on your learning strengths, some people can absorb more information through this form of teaching method.
However, there are more cons than pros. From what I experience, students tend to "multi-task" and get distracted from studying. Not only will some of them log onto "Facebook" or "Windows Live Messenger" to chat with their friends, some would even play games. By playing games, they may forget about their tasks and submit the assignments late. By sitting in front of the computer for such long hours, it will be bad for your health. It is bad for your eyesight and radiation emitting from the computer can harm your skin because we sit in front of the computer for long periods of time with our face absorbing the radiation. Hence, I feel that we should not have too much of home learning and the current number of home learning days are just right.
Most of you may wonder what is home learning about. Students get to stay at home and complete the online packages posted by the teachers on their websites. They are also provided online resources such as websites and attachments which contain notes.
As a student, I feel that it is quite relaxing for us during home learning. We can wake up at a later time and do the assignments at our own pace. This makes us less stressed and less tiring. Depending on your learning strengths, some people can absorb more information through this form of teaching method.
However, there are more cons than pros. From what I experience, students tend to "multi-task" and get distracted from studying. Not only will some of them log onto "Facebook" or "Windows Live Messenger" to chat with their friends, some would even play games. By playing games, they may forget about their tasks and submit the assignments late. By sitting in front of the computer for such long hours, it will be bad for your health. It is bad for your eyesight and radiation emitting from the computer can harm your skin because we sit in front of the computer for long periods of time with our face absorbing the radiation. Hence, I feel that we should not have too much of home learning and the current number of home learning days are just right.
posted by Lame Guy @ 11:15 PM
2 Comments:
At 5:15 AM,
Tzyy Yeou said…
HI LEQI^^. I agree with you that home learning has more cons than its pros. For me, I find it hard to concentrate and I could not learn as much things as I could in class. Moreover, the time allocated for wach subject was also insufficient to complete the assigned work. Thus we will have to stare at the computer for very long which is not beneficial for our health. I have the same thoughts as you and I really hope that there will be no more home learning in the future ><
At 10:39 PM,
joyce said…
You need to get used to the new way of learning, i.e. multi-tasking. IT Home Learning is an excellent way for you to develop self-discipline and dictate your pace of learning. This I find most powerful. Instead of being the passive receiver of knowledge, you are now an active explorer, discovering new frontiers of knowledge.
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