This is just wrong.

[Wolfenbarg]

Okay, now that the links work and I've actually seen it... what the hell? Why? The Kinect isn't a learning tool, far from it. What is the point of this?

 

[Kurokami]

PS: I don't do homework either, but I'm smart enough to know it wasn't invented as some kind of payback by educators,

Insulting my intelligence now, are we? That's nice.

especially when THEY have to mark it

Is it done? Yes? 100%. No? 0%. NEXT

That's what most of my teachers did. Marking it is about as mindless as doing it.




God...discussing homework like this is making me remember why I loathed high school so much...and why I'm glad to have gotten the hell out two years ago. With a genuine diploma, oddly enough.

Fair point, I didn't mean to insult your intelligence, call it a slip on my end.

It seems to me you're arguing against a specific type of homework, the useless kind that's done for its own sake. I don't think you can argue against all homework citing only how stupid some have been in your experience. That's like saying Teachers are stupid because, well lets face it, many are.

 

[Mcupobob]

Homeworks is just busy work design to teach organization skills. Which in its self isn't to bad. I'm more pissed off in the fact that the school was most likely not getting paid for this. If they were it meant they were trying to get extra funding on the side through ads , so they could buy equipment or raise the teachers salary.

Instead I think the teacher did this out of laziness. I don't blame him/her for that either, its near Christmas vacation and the kids are prolly getting restless so she/he is just throwing some easy work at them.

 

[teisjm]

Well microsoft is just advertising, thats basicly what companies do to sell their stuff.

If anything the etacher is to blame for using that stuff for homework

 

[=Paranoid=]

That's a shitty teacher, to put it mildly. They were pushing Mario Paint at my school when it came out, to help creativity and make games "useful".

How about buying paintbrushes, *****?

I had the incredible machine at our school when i was a kid... Good times working out how you could get the ball into the box or light the candles with whatever you had. Stuff like this can be good in moderation.

My biggest gripe is with the idea that everything a child does should be educational and that games should be eradicated in favor of "activities", said activities not even being done in school.

Besides, the children see enough screens already, so paintbrushes, yeah?

Maybe now, but this was over 10 years ago when i was using computers at school (ye old mac). Computers were only just coming out in schools and they were a new thing for both teachers and students. I can agree with you one hundred percent about the current situation today but over a decade ago is a bit harsh. This was a very experimental learning tool for schools to use, and they had the right foresight into kids futures considering that computers are now the standard in nearly any industry you go into.