Steve Wilkinson makes an important point about helping clarify the lines between real and fake work.  We certainly hear a lot about fake work in education, and clearly many teachers don’t add the context for work for the students that Steve does.  Without it, students may interpret work as “busy work” and either dismiss it and do something else that is truly fake work or they do it without respecting the reasons.

Steve is also suggesting that people can be glib about busy work, what we would call fake work, and it is a mistake to just treat work of any kind with an air of arrogance.   Teachers have a responsibility to be clear about the results they are seeking, and students have a responsibility to ask about value and intent.

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