To start with, we are in an urban school district with a large free and reduced lunch population.
When I have taught math, very few students have done homework, so I quickly learned to adjust my teaching to take that in account. Each student had a different reason for not doing their work, many of them busy working.
I just heard from a student who came from a district where that was being done. She had to download and print out the notes, and then use an internet connection to watch the teacher go over the notes. They would work on problems in class.
Two huge problems with this concept:
Most of our students don’t have printers (I know this, as they often as to use the ones in my classroom, No, you can’t).
A larger segment of the population doesn’t have access to technology at home.
I do something similar though, and I often record (using Camtasia), instructions, especially if I think that the project we are doing isn’t easy to do from written instructions.
Then the students can assess the recording during class. They could access it at home, but I’m not sure that would be helpful.
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