Web-Based Homework – What Do Teens & Tweens Really Want
February 4, 2008 by Linda BraunFiled in Collaboration, Content, users
What did 90 teens & tweens between 8 and 18 years old have to say about web-based homework help? Quite a bit. Including:
* Wikipedia and Google are their first choices for finding information.
* When needing help with homework, students ask friends or family first.
* Teens and teens rarely think of asking a librarian for homework help, but they do think of asking them for leisure reading information.
* A web-based set of homework resources that teens & tweens can customize for their own purposes has great appeal.
* Web-based homework support has to be available where tweens and teens already are online – Facebook, MySpace, Club Penguin, etc. – and shouldn’t require that they go somewhere else, for example a library sponsored web site.