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Speaker 5 Technology is here to stay and we will just have to accept it. But there's no doubt that children's technology in a supervised classroom but rather what a child will do at home when he's alone, lost in a virtual world. His health, ability to engage with others, natural curiosity about his surroundings and imagination are bound to suffer. If pen and paper once defined school days, it's the stylus and touch screen that do so today. Perhaps the two can co-exist. conversation and choose A, B or C for each sentence. You will hear three people talking about homework. Read the sentences below, then listen to the You will hear the recording twice. Task 2 Intro female: School homework, the bane of many a household, has been closely studied by a pair of Australian academics who found that homework for young primary school children is of little or no value when it comes to academic achievement. Rachel Carbonell spoke to the book's authors, Richard Walker and Professor Mike Horsley about their views light male: I realise there's a lot of disagreement, but the consensus findings would be that homework's not very beneficial for primary school kids. You know, there are very limited benefits for junior high school kids and only reasonable benefits for senior high school kids. Thinking about the effect of the involvement of parents in homework-where parents are over-controlling or interfere in their kids' homework activities-then that's clearly not beneficial, is it? But where parents essentially try to provide guidance then that situation is beneficial for students. Not many parents actually do this, they tend to take control but if they can take a back seat then this supports their kid's autonomy rather than them being interfering and controlling, female: Well, despite the research showing overall that homework is of limited value for younger children, it didn't discount the value of homework in children. For example, it said that it helps to develop other skills such as managing their time and setting and completing tasks. deep male: Yes, but the fact is that the quality of the homework that is set is more important than the quantity. We think that there's probably too much homework-which is basically just practising and repeating the work done in the classroom. female: I think the book is valuable because it's aimed at teachers and parents as well as students. I suppose in essence it proposes a re-think of homework, doesn't it? light male: Yes-for example it suggests that teachers should develop a homework curriculum. That is, when the teachers are planning their unit of work they should probably plan homework at that time. Homework is often an add-on. So one of the things that we hope to achieve is to try and get the