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24 Feb, 23
24 Feb, 23
Classroom, homework, Social Studies

The Benefits of Incorporating Current Events into College Homework

How can you make studying more enjoyable? When this question is raised among tutors, you will receive prompt comments that mention using innovative teaching methods and incorporating ICT into the classroom. Yet, increasing student engagement with homework requires more than just purchasing cutting-edge teaching tools and turning each session into a theatrical production.

By Zimble Digital

How can you make studying more enjoyable? When this question is raised among tutors, you will receive prompt comments that mention using innovative teaching methods and incorporating ICT into the classroom. 

Yet, increasing student engagement with homework requires more than just purchasing cutting-edge teaching tools and turning each session into a theatrical production. Assignments that incorporate current events can easily encourage a greater understanding of the studied principles, improving content mastery in a particular area. 

For example, rather than tackling ideas related to historical events, I found it more interesting to do my college homework when it covered emerging challenges that piqued my attention. This essay will highlight a few reasons why you should incorporate current events into your college coursework if you are on the fence about doing so. 

  1. Giving relevance to concepts under study

When going about college homework, you should include emerging issues in your assignments as this helps bridge the gap between concepts and learners. Often, learners may be reluctant to study a particular subject as they question its relevance in their lives. 

However, current issues can help the learners to see the theories in play, therefore, evoking their interest to dive further into particular ideas. Also, covering current issues in assignments helps students to connect past actions to present events and also to diagnose the mitigation to modern problems, therefore, making them aware of current events.

  1. Making assignments fun

Compared to issues that seem distant to the lives of the students, emerging issues offer students insight into how a concept is affecting society, therefore, evoking their interest to analyze the topic in depth in a bid to determine the extent of a problem and to come up with the mitigation for various issues. 

Therefore, we recommend assignments that analyze a modern event to guide the student to research a field’s current state and apply the concepts as they try to identify and fix the issues that caused a negative scenario. 

  1. Developing critical thinking

Unlike ancient issues, modern issues are poorly studied, therefore, invoking a learner’s critical thinking to apply the concepts learned within the class to solve a modern problem. As such, instead of copying assignments or borrowing existing ideas mindlessly, students can apply the concepts to analyze present-day actions and project their consequences in the future. 

Alternatively, the assignments may require students to pinpoint the starting point of a problem and apply the concept to mitigate the issue. This forces the learner to evaluate a scenario to develop relevant suggestions thoroughly. 

  1. Promoting better comprehension

If learners feel that a concept does not matter to them, their comprehension can be greatly compromised. Conversely, modern topics expose students to various concepts in play, evoking their interest and helping them interact further with the topic. 

This interest is great for study as it creates more cues on a topic helping the learner have a better recall of facts during the study. The interest in a topic can also overcome perceptual challenges and make it less burdensome to investigate a topic in depth. 

  1. Expose them to current issues in a field

The number of book-smart individuals with a superficial understanding of emerging issues is alarming. Since many concepts touch on fictitious examples and past events, students may struggle to apply these ideas to present-day issues. 

Therefore, integrating modern-day issues into assignments helps broaden a learner’s perspective of various concepts, allowing them to contribute to discussions about these issues. 

Final Take

We hope that these pointers were enough to inform your decision on adopting current events into assignments, however, check out various ways to include these issues in the assignments for the most interaction with your learners. 


Disclaimer:

This article does not endorse the views of Qrius and/or any of its staff. Plagiarism is a serious offense that could lead to expulsion from university or student termination.

Qrius and/or any of its staff is not liable for the advice provided in this article and consumer discretion is advised.


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