Many people believe that technologies (技术) are great for learning. Today, teaching tools such as PDAs ( personal digital assistant掌上电脑) are used in a lot of subjects, such as English.
History and Science.
Many teachers are supporters of using PDAs in language learning. There are several advantages (好处). They say students can have more time for discussion in the classroom because they can get ready for their lessons with the help of PDAs. For example, they can listen to articles at home. They also say that PDAs can help students learn without teachers' help. Some students might need to listen to an article many times to understand it. They can use PDAs to listen to it again and again.
The students are also happy to use PDAs. They think using PDAs is an enjoyable way to learn. It will make the classes much more interesting. And they can learn more in class. Teaching notes are stored in their PDAs and easy to find.
However, many parents complain (抱怨) that PDAs are doing harm to students. They worry that students will use them to download (下载) teaching notes and use them to cheat (作弊) during exams. If a student spends more time on a PDA, he will have less time to talk with teachers and classmates.
In a word, education needs to make changes with times as technology is playing an important part. Let's look forward to a wonderful future when PDAs and other technologies can add a lot to the classroom.
【小题1】What can students use PDAs to do? List one thing from the passage.【小题2】Why do many parents complain that PDAs are doing harm to students?
【小题3】Do you think using PDAs is an enjoyable way to learn? Why or why not?
You may think kids are getting more homework than ever before. If so, think again. A new study released by Brookings’ Brown Center on Education Policy shows that today’s students have no more homework than their parents did when they were in school.
Numerous articles and reports over the past few decades have suggested America’s schools are overloading kids with more and more homework. But the Brookings study argues the opposite: homework loads have not changed over the past 30 years.
The study’s author, Tom Loveless, reviewed surveys taken by kids and parents about how much homework young students have. The results showed that the typical elementary student has 30-45 minutes of homework each night. The average high-schooler has about an hour. These numbers have remained the same since 1984.
In a set of guidelines published by the National Parent Teacher Association(PTA), the amount of time students should spent on homework is their grade level multiplied by ten minutes. For example, a third-grader should have 30 minutes of homework, a fifth-grader 50 minutes, and so on. Loveless, who was a sixth-grade teacher in the 1980s, says this system has stayed consistent into the 21st century.
One change that occurred over the past three decades, however, is among 9-year-olds, the average age of a third-grader. In 1984, more 9-year-olds had no homework at all, versus today. “What’s happened is, there were a number of kids at age 9 who had no homework in 1984, but now that number does have some homework,” Loveless told TFK. “Though it is a little amount of work, it is still an increase in the amount of time spent on homework for third-graders.”
Homework is an important part of a student's education. Some teachers argue that homework prepares kids for state tests and for college. They worry that a lighter homework load will put kids at a disadvantage. “Homework has benefits that go well beyond what’s going on in school,” says Harris Cooper, a University of Missouri psychology professor who has studied homework’s effect on test scores. Kids learn to be organized, manage their time and master new skills without a teacher’s help.
Teachers give two reasons for assigning a lot of homework. First, they say, the government now requires schools to meet higher-than-ever achievement goals for students. Second, they know many parents want their children to be able to get into the nation’s best colleges and universities. These parents believe homework is a way to ensure students are learning at their full capacity.
People who favor homework argue that it can have many other beneficial effects. They claim it can help students develop good study habits, and recognize that learning can occur at home as well as at school.
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