Bringing a forklift to the gym and trying to pick up all the different shapped weights.
I just spent the afternoon driving 79" helical Piles with a dingo for a solar array, the n grated the land, and since I had an extra hour with the machine , helped landscaping crew on site dig out a trench to plant hedges.
Sure, but within the simile that’s sitting at the back of the class and laughing with your friends instead of engaging with the lesson. Fun but you didn’t gain anything and got in the way of people actually trying.
I suspect a large part of the problem is that, at least in my experience, this is not at all explained to students and often the teachers themselves do it as “something that everybody does” rather than with the understanding that there is an underlying purposed that homework is meant to serve (which sould inform the when, what, how and how much of homework).
If see a similar kind of problem in my area (Software Development) all the time - people doing certain things because “they’re good practices”, “it’s what you’re supposed to do” or even “that’s what everybody does” without at all understanding the underlying reasons for doing it (and, more importantly, when to do it, when not to do it and how best to do it), which is why for example nowadays you have countless of “Agile” teams that are doing wrong or unecessary (in their context) parts of it whilst not doing the parts that the should do just doing things they think they’re supposed to do it but doing them incorrectly since they don’t get what those things are supposed to achieve and how.
Mind you, some people are just lazy, so some students will just “optimize away” homework with whatever tools they have to do so, even when knowing the purpose of homework and when being given the most learning-enhancing homework possible.
Homework is not to measure anything is to force you to make the work so your brain develops new connections.
Using AI for homework or study is like bringing a forklift to the gym.
Being able to use exercise equipment with a forklift would be pretty cool tho
To be fair, you’d have to develop mad forklift skills to do anything outside of deadlifts.
That sounds way more fun
Going to a gym to pose as doing exercise while not doing it? Yeah fun.
Bringing a forklift to the gym and trying to pick up all the different shapped weights.
I just spent the afternoon driving 79" helical Piles with a dingo for a solar array, the n grated the land, and since I had an extra hour with the machine , helped landscaping crew on site dig out a trench to plant hedges.
Easily the most fun ive had at work in a month.
Sure, but within the simile that’s sitting at the back of the class and laughing with your friends instead of engaging with the lesson. Fun but you didn’t gain anything and got in the way of people actually trying.
Yar well, in this situation school is for the muscles. Might be fun but it won’t make you stronger
It’d be a different sort of exercise, but it would be interesting as a means of learning how to control a forklift.
No the forklift thing
I suspect a large part of the problem is that, at least in my experience, this is not at all explained to students and often the teachers themselves do it as “something that everybody does” rather than with the understanding that there is an underlying purposed that homework is meant to serve (which sould inform the when, what, how and how much of homework).
If see a similar kind of problem in my area (Software Development) all the time - people doing certain things because “they’re good practices”, “it’s what you’re supposed to do” or even “that’s what everybody does” without at all understanding the underlying reasons for doing it (and, more importantly, when to do it, when not to do it and how best to do it), which is why for example nowadays you have countless of “Agile” teams that are doing wrong or unecessary (in their context) parts of it whilst not doing the parts that the should do just doing things they think they’re supposed to do it but doing them incorrectly since they don’t get what those things are supposed to achieve and how.
Mind you, some people are just lazy, so some students will just “optimize away” homework with whatever tools they have to do so, even when knowing the purpose of homework and when being given the most learning-enhancing homework possible.