Home Learning Debate - Part One

Home learning has been a burning topic in Room 14 this week.

Only half of us completed what was expected last week.

Home learning is an issue that we often revisit as a syndicate, as children and adults alike hear conflicting reasons for and against it in the media, from friends, etc. Nevertheless, Room 14 does have home learning to complete each week. It usually consists of a task relating to a current theme or topic we are investigating in class (often to engage our friends and families), some short maths revision work and our personal reading for Friday's Readers' Café.

It was clear after initial discussions this week that most of Room 14 had very different views about why we have home learning. For us as a group, this is important to openly discuss and to address because if we are divided about the why, then our shared vision about what we expect of ourselves and each other in our Room 14 learning community may not actually be 'shared'.

Here is a video about what we have done regarding this issue so far.



Our next steps are to respond to each other's published arguments on USpace and to begin to critique the reasons people have chosen for and against home learning. It will be interesting to see if there are any shifts in thinking about the why.


Feel free to add a comment with your thoughts.