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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
I generally agree with your perspective but there needs to be some semblance of timeline because again, that is how the world works. Also, knowing kids and how lazy they can be, it also tries to encourage them to put some work into their own education doesn't it? LIke if you never have deadlines and just can 'do the work whenever' doesn't that likely lead to mass procrastination by many / most and then they never actually end up learning the material?
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This is where I will say that you are talking in hypothetical possibilities where people who actually implement it say that the problems you worry about don't really happen. For the most part those lazy kids are still lazy. They don't hand in the work when it is due and they don't hand in the work later. This helps students that might have let an assignment slip not get punished for material they know. It allows students to take ownership of doing a bad job and work to learn the material. I think with the workloads they have most students want to get the assignment done on the due date so they are done with it and can move onto their next assignment.
Also it rarely is just hand in the work whenever, there often are parameters around it. What is usually encouraged though is if you do the work I will mark it, even if it comes in later. If you show an understanding of the material you will get the grades that deserves because as I said that is the goal of teaching.
Again I will say I think we really overrate the amount of "deadlines" we have that are similar to what you would see in school and the amount of skills we develop in middle/high school when it comes to meeting those deadlines.