Designing For The Modern Classroom

Designing For The Modern Classroom

How much has the average 21st century classroom changed from its 19th century counterpart? Old schoolhouses featured long rows of seats facing a teacher’s desk and chalkboard from where the lesson was taught. Swap the chalkboard for a whiteboard, and it’s a fairly...
Understanding Active Learning

Understanding Active Learning

I dare anyone to claim they’ve never nodded off in the back of a classroom during a particularly dull lecture. For most of us, growing up involved a lot of sitting quietly and listening hours on end to a teacher droning on in front of you and 30 other trapped...
4 Ways to Make Your Classroom Wall Writable

4 Ways to Make Your Classroom Wall Writable

An old-school whiteboard may have its advantages, but what it always lacks in is size. Making an entire wall writable is a great alternative as it gives you and your students much more room for creativity and collaboration. Sounds exciting, doesn’t it? Now that you...
How peerhatch is disrupting the writable surface market

How peerhatch is disrupting the writable surface market

A Quick History. To where the writable surface market is today, we have come a long way since chalk blackboards (circa 18th Century) – a tool to focus students. To green boards (Circa Early 1930’s) – to reduce the glare. To Whiteboards which were introduced in 1960....