The 8/23/2007 edition of the Wall Street Journal had an article by Christopher Lawton about Checking the Kid's Homework Over the Internet.
The article discusses how families are using various Internet and web collaboration applications like Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Zoho.com, Engage, and TeacherEase to check their children's homework.
"All of this is part of a larger trend of using the Internet as school aid. Indeed, homework has become the top reason that teenagers are using the Internet on a monthly basis, according to a November 2006 JupiterResearch LLC study of 2,091 teens in the U.S., ages 13 to 17. Social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook ranked fifth in the survey."
The main concern expressed in the article is that parents using this type of collaboration help their children too much. The article also cites that families are using online tools like Yahoo Calendar to keep track of children's assignments and to schedule parent-teacher events, PTA meetings, etc.
Its not surprising to me that adults who have been using these types of tools on their jobs would now be using the free collaborative tools now on the Internet for home-use.
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