Homework

http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=308817 - Head Set homework limits

http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=75541 - Boys turned off

http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6003552 - New chapter for Home study

http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=2644235 - Help on the home front

Paul Blum is the author of Surviving and Succeeding in Difficult Classrooms (RoutledgeFalmer)  http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=375800 - Dog ate it sir

Time Mag - http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1376208,00.html

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/11/20/pixmania_homework_report/ - Report on excuses and IT problems.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/secondaryeducation/3477145/Pupils-blame-technology-for-not-handing-in-homework.html - Pupils blame technology for lost homework.

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Telegraph (2008) 'Pupils blame technology for not handing in homework.' Telegraph Newspapers.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/secondaryeducation/3477145/Pupils-blame-technology-for-not-handing-in-homework.html - Pupils blame technology for lost homework. [accessed 23rd February 2009]

Sherwood, J. (2008) 'Kids blame technology for homework hand-in failures' Register Hardware. http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/11/20/pixmania_homework_report/ [accessed 23rd February 2009]

National School Boards Foundation (2005) 'Safe and Smart: Research and Guidelines for Children's Use of the Internet .' http://www.nsbf.org/pdf/NSBF_safe_brochure.pdf [accessed 24th February 2009]

Wallis, C (2006) 'The Myth about homework.' Time Magazine Online http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1376208,00.html [accessed 25th February 2009]

Telegraph (2008) and Sherwood, J. (2008) report that a survey by an online electronics retailer Pixmania surveyed 1000 teachers that pupils excuses for not completing their homework are increasingly linked to technology. Of the estimated 6.5 million excuses 1.5 million now relate to technology. The article encourages teachers to combat this and become more tech savvy with respect to excuses.

Pop in with Parents and learning styles.

National School Boards Foundation (2005) conducted a survey through telephone interviews, that surveyed parents in 1,735 randomly-chosen households with children ages two to 17 to explore how they use the Internet–and produced statistically significant results. Although this method presents problems in accessing the population of the data in summerising their key findings that the main reasons parents installed the internet at home was for educational purposes for their children but moreover can 'bloster home school connections.' Interestingly, t hirty-two percent of all parents whose children ages five to 17 use the Internet report that their children's use of the telephone has increased since they began using the Internet. This significant finding help to confirm a linking of the technologies and each technology can not be used in isolation. Although the report does not highlight how pupils use the telephone or how much they use it for

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Wallis (2006) counteracts this argument and using a Univrersity of Michigan 2004 national survey of 2,900 American children argues that homework in itself can be demotivating and put pupils off school and can seem demotivating to pupils======

