Chalkface Blog
The best teaching materials in the most practical format.
Author: Ian Grove-Stephensen
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Being able to see every answer from every student is useful, but sometimes you can’t see the wood for the trees – it’s just too much detail. For a long time, I have wanted to offer key-concept analysis of every assignment, but have stumbled on the problem of finding someone to group our 120,000+ questions…
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Just over 10 years ago, BIll Gates had dinner with Tony Blair at 10 Downing St. His reward was that every secondary school was required to teach children to use the products of the Microsoft Corporation, under the subject heading of “ICT”. Because if an American tycoon says we need it, then obviously we do.…
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You may already have noticed the little ‘Topic’ buttons sprouting in the Yacapaca Resources list. We are progressively re-classifying all 15,000 quizzes by syllabus and topic to make it easier for you to find the assessment(s) you need. The feedback I’ve had from the beta-testers is that they have been stunned at how much content…
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This article has been getting a lot of comment in various forums. If you have not read it already, it’s well worth your time. For the last two decades now, the English educational system has been slavishly remodelled along American lines – despite the manifest failure of that country’s school system. Meanwhile the Finns, following…
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We are replacing the Tasks module that underpins Yacapaca ePortfolios and Short-text Tests with Quick Assignments. Why? Beyond a very small number of power-using enthusiasts, neither ePortfolios nor
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