Chalkface Blog
The best teaching materials in the most practical format.
Author: Ian Grove-Stephensen
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Just when we were all getting the idea that search tools are now so good they can replace hierarchical file systems, along comes Alex Bokov dreaming about what might replace search as our key tool for acquiring the knowledge we need… I think someday the internet experience will be streamlined to the following: You turn…
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Early on in the rollout of Paperless School we discovered that if you want good, accurate bug reports from students, it’s best to get them to tell you directly rather than report via their teacher. It doesn’t always work out quite as expected, though. This is from today’s log, with personal details anonymised … Report…
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Danah Boyd is an anthropologist who researches the cultural implications of social software, and like the great anthropologists, she lives with her subjects (the early adopters) as one of them. These early adopters are mainly teenagers, and I’ve often found Danah’s writing to provide insight into the way they perceive technology. We adults have a…
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This morning, Google Alerts tells me Chalkface is now defined in Encarta. No mention of us specifically of course, but nonetheless a nice little stroke to my ego to start the day. U.K. education teaching in a classroom: teaching in a classroom, as distinct from the other duties of a teacher ( informal ) [Modeled…
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Back in November 2000 I was practically booed from the stage for warning my fellow publishers that Moore’s Law was going to kill the textbook stone dead. Within 5 years, I argued, computers suitable for education were going to cost less than £100. After that point, it is simply so much cheaper to deliver educational…
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