A parent sending their 10 year old to school today might peek into the classroom and think back on their own time playing "The Oregon Trail" on an old-school iMac, or writing in the answer to a ...

The classroom that forgot the blackboard In a small, rural school in Jamaica, a teacher once stood before her class with nothing but a piece of chalk and a dusty blackboard.

Inspired by the old custom of putting pictures and messages on blackboards to congratulate graduating students, the students began making ever more ambitious and intricate works of art in chalk. Its ...