Ditch That Homework: Practical Strategies to Help Make Homework Obsolete by Miller Matt & Keeler Alice

Author:Miller, Matt & Keeler, Alice
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-946444-40-0
Publisher: Dave Burgess Consulting, Inc.
Published: 2017-07-24T16:00:00+00:00

Whatever you do, make sure that end-of-the-year assessments aren’t the only time when you go over content that you’ve covered throughout the year.

Sitting Hurts Children’s Brain Function

In addition to spaced repetition and retrieval, there’s a secret ingredient for boosting students’ performance in the classroom. It’s available to every teacher and every student. It is free, but many schools are cutting back on it instead of adding more.

That ingredient is physical activity.

Kids have lots of energy—much more energy than us adults! They squirm and fidget and talk when they’re told to sit down and be quiet.

They all but vibrate with energy, so it isn’t surprising to learn that the sedentary nature in many schools is doing considerable harm to children and teens’ health. The World Health Organization lists mobility as one of its emerging health issues for children (DitchThatHomework.com/who). It cites studies showing a number of concerns:

Many children consume more calories than they’re able to burn in a day.

Low energy expenditure in children was 200 kilocalories below estimates for their ages. (It would take an eight-year-old boy with average weight of fifty-six pounds an extra hour of basketball, an extra two hours of leisurely cycling, or an extra hour and a half of hopscotch to burn 200 kilocalories.)

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