A Better and More Modern Way of Homework

Hi everyone!

It's been a week since I uploaded my last post. I hope you're doing well.

Today, I'm going to talk about a much modern and better way of giving homework. You may have heard about Seesaw before. It is a website which allows you to give homework or do activities with your students easily. We can say that it is a social media for teachers and students. With Seesaw, you can easily follow your students' performance and progression. So as to give an example, I created a 2nd-grade activity.

You can click here and see what kind of an activity I have uploaded.

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