Chalkface Blog
The best teaching materials in the most practical format.
Author: Ian Grove-Stephensen
-
So Schools of the Future has slipped again. Good. Perhaps that will give Gordon time to decide to spend the money on education, instead of buildings that will be outdated before they are even completed.
-
(click here if you can’t see the video) This is simply mind-boggling. Gordon Brown just promised to hire 750,000 Indian teachers to teach English to 1,000,000,000 Chinese, via the web. I have criticised the guy in the past for lack of vision, but I unreservedly withdraw that now. Whether the Chinese will welcome this, or…
-
I mean historically. For once, I’m not trying to be contentious, just to list the reasons we have chosen to make this enormous social investment. The British Public Schools created a steady trickle of young men who had the skills and attitude to run the empire. The apprenticeship system has produced artisans since the Middle…
-
Having sworn blind I’d never attend another BETT, I couldn’t resist going to TeachMeet 08 there on Friday. And what a treat it was. Short presentations from lots of people knew of, or knew online, but had never met. My favourite presentation was Doug Dickinson promoting the free ICT support from IctOpus. Ignoring all the…
-
Dave Humphreys did this slideshow a while back, I’d guess as part of an INSET he was delivering. I should have blogged it a while ago (sorry Dave) but here it is now. You may need to click the link to see it – I can’t get it to embed reliably. From Slideshare itself you…
Chalkface Blog 