Giving out printed materials or writing on the black board for homework?
If you are still giving homework using workbooks on printed sheets of paper, or writing on the blackboard for students to copy the homework, then please read on. You really need to get out of "stone age" and  get modern!

We know for most, in spite of all the technologies available, going into digital paperless homework is still very involved, costly ( using PDAs etc) and more of a hassle than anything else.

AGE has spent years studying and developing a solution that is practical for everybody, not just those who can afford giving PDAs or other high tech gizmos to their students. In the end we get only a handful of students (who can afford those gizmos) and the rest still struggling with pens and papers.

AGE uses simpler technologies that are practical and at lower levels of complexities to implement. It is designed to be so simple that any teacher or student can fully benefit from AGE without hassle and many parties would benefit from it. It is useable even in old legacy computers and OS like Pentium IIs with Win98! It runs on WinXPs and Win9x computers (Vista not supported yet)

Now you know why till today, almost every teacher is still giving homework the traditional way - use high tech (Ms Words) to create the contents but distribute in printed formats and correct the answers manually (how tedious)?.

AGE is able to accommodate the oldest and the new machines (up to winXP), the rich and the poor, and the high capacity Pen drives and low capacity diskettes. Fits everybody.  Those who are without computers today can source for the low cost ULPCs (recommended by us only - beware certain uncertified ULPCs may not work in our current/future modules ) with WinXPs or others.
 

 We describe below how traditional teachers in a  "modern" day school would do to prepare homework...
 
 1. Teachers prepare questions manually using Windows Words.
 2.  Print out many copies, staple and distribute the sets questions to students.
 3.  Many collect money to pay for the papers and photocopying (instead of using it for the canteen)
 4.  Students manually finish the homework and submit to teachers to correct manually.
 5.  Teachers correct the piles of homework assignments, calculate scores for each one.
 6.  Teachers may have to record and tabulate all the scores in excel or in sheets of paper.
 7.  Teachers return the marked answer papers back to students
 8.  Students ,after a week or so would have forgotten the questions, glance the marks and put them aside thus learning nothing.
 9.  Answered papers become rubbish to be collected at the landfills.

 ..... process repeated by millions for most of the year.

A lot of work has been put into the entire exercises by all - teachers and students..
Yet has it been effective in imparting knowledge? Could it have been more effective?

If you are still doing the above, you are outdated.

Get more modern today with AGE paperless Homework.  See videos of how AGE changes everything. How AGE makes learning more effective and cost almost nothing. Plain and simple interactive self correcting multimedia modules all normal teachers know how to prepare.
Read below how to get modern the easy way.  

3. For language learning, let AGE reads out instead of teachers. This is better because then teachers can focus on students to pay attentions. Teachers  instead of  reading aloud endlessly while trying to get the students' attentions, may now concentrate on the students while AGE reads aloud the passages.

4. Upon finishing the modules, these modules can be conveniently repeated in students' home computers for better comprehension of the subjects at their own pace and time. This is especially important for students who are weak or slow in understanding a subject.

5. Exercises can be shown on screen and get students to participate in answering them will ensure students' attention to the subjects taught and hence better learning speed.

While these can also be done using existing CD based contents, can these CDs reach out to the most rural areas or even allow the students to take them home? - all of them? AGE can.
 

2.  For students with Internet, zip the module folder containing the homework to be given to students.
 
3.  Attach and send to students with Internet access the zipped module by email.

4.  For students without Internet access, copy module folder to a diskette or pen drive. This can be given to students directly to copy or to be copied from
             school's resource center using diskettes or pen drives. see video

5.  Students complete the assignments and return digital or printed answers (their choice).  see video
      (Students without computers can make use of the school library's, friends' or relatives' computers to do their homework.

6.   Teacher copies the answers to score sheets folder say, c:\visless\score\teacher  see video

7.  Teacher clicks Check Scores in Ms Excel icon found in AGE_Homework folder in Desktop screen

Teachers gives the marks back to students either in one collated score sheets or in individual score slips. Not a single piece of paper is used and not a single cent need to be spent. Repeat this for an entire year, can one imagine how much paper and money is saved? Cost to students? Only requires two diskettes or pen drives.
 

1. Teacher instructs students to pick a module from one of these...

      a. our web site which constantly will have updated modules in various subjects
      b. the school library or teacher's computer containing modules downloaded already from our web site
      c. teachers' exchange center where teachers exchange modules prepared by other teachers.
      d. students' computer club trained to produce modules.

2. Students answer the questions and save the answers into diskettes or files to be emailed to teacher or just transfer the answers to the teachers' score folder
      e.g. c:\visless\score see video
3. Teacher copies the answers to score sheets folder say, c:\visless\score\teacher
4. Teacher clicks Checks Scores in Ms Excel icon found in AGE Homework folder in Desktop screen.
5. Teacher consolidates in Ms Excel instantly. See video  

    Finished an exercise done instantly, hassle free and without use of any eco unfriendly paper.
 

Another option allows the above results to be individually printed for each students like results slips.

From there teachers can easily sort according to students, questions or marks without entering a single word manually into the computer.
That's it. So simple and more effective than traditional old ways of giving tutorials and homework.
Best part is, using AGE modules, older computers from Pentium 1 running on Win '98 can be used. Look no PDAs, Tablet PCs needed to jumpstart your students into the digital age.

Collation of students' performance data for the entire country ... now possible.
The data collected can then be centralised at the main Ministry of Education data base for further evaluation of students' progress. Remedial actions can then be easily identified never before possible using CURRENT TECHNOLOGY because no developing country today has the technology to reach out to all in the country and collect such data. This can be done as conveniently as possible. Compare this with global methods of using PDAs and other devices.
 

Benefits of AGE homework for teachers  see other benefits
1. less time preparing homework assignments for students- we do it for you!!
2. do not have to collect photocopy money from students each time homework papers
      are given out to students.
3. do not have to mark the objective portions of all homework. (Teachers still need to correct the   
       subjective parts though)
4. do not have to add up the marks and find the score percentages for each students.
       Modules self correcting.
5. do not have to manually key in students' scores into Excel to sort out the scores
6. get Instant reports on tests.
7. can create instant digital questionnaires/homework if teachers use AGE E-workbook generator
8. Save the trees be part of the global efforts to stop global warming. Imagine if
         each child on earth can save a rim of paper per year!

  .... and most important of all - its dirt cheap to get into. Every child can afford it.