Blackboard
noun
A smooth, dark surface that teachers write on with chalk.
The teacher wrote the math problem on the blackboard for the students to solve.
Often appears as...
- chalk and blackboard
- clean the blackboard
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Academic
noun
In computing, a shared space in memory where different programs can read and write data.
The system uses a blackboard architecture to facilitate data sharing between modules.
Often appears as...
- blackboard system
- blackboard architecture
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Technical
noun
A smooth, dark surface that teachers write on with chalk.
The teacher wrote the math problem on the blackboard for the students to solve.
Often appears as...
- chalk and blackboard
- clean the blackboard
Usage tips
Academic
noun
In computing, a shared space in memory where different programs can read and write data.
The system uses a blackboard architecture to facilitate data sharing between modules.
Often appears as...
- blackboard system
- blackboard architecture
Usage tips
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/3Traditional Education
A blackboard is often associated with traditional classroom settings and teaching methods.
Before smartboards, every classroom had a blackboard.
Pro Tip 2/3Visual Learning
Blackboards are used for visual learning, helping students see and remember concepts.
Geometry is easier to understand when the teacher draws shapes on the blackboard.
Pro Tip 3/3Chalk Dust
Regular cleaning is necessary due to chalk dust, which can be messy and cause allergies.
Please clean the blackboard thoroughly, so we don't have chalk dust in the air.
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A Grumpy Shoebill...
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Pam Warhurst: How we can...
We're just all volunteers. What could we actually do? So we did some really simple things. We fundraised, we got some blackboards, we put "Incredible Edible" on the top, we gave it every market trader that was selling locally, and they scribbled on what they were selling in any one week. Really popular. People congregated around it. Sales were up.
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Uri Alon: Why truly...
about motivation. So I turned to improvisation theater, and I told my students from day one what's going to happen when you start research, and this has to do with our mental schema of what research will be like. Because you see, whenever people do anything, for example if I want to touch this blackboard,
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Rick Smolan: A girl, a...
And I noticed that she was clowning around. When the teachers would ask questions, she'd be the first person to raise her hand. Again, not at all shy or withdrawn, or anything like the other children that I'd photographed. The first one to go to the blackboard to answer questions.
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Keith Bellows:...
And they brought quite a bit of this stuff. But over the years, the blackboards were fine, but they ran out of chalk. And this is a real crisis for them. And that's where the hyena comes in. The hyena is probably the most perfectly designed scavenging animal in the world.
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E.O. Wilson: Advice to...
The ability to form concepts with images of entities and processes pictured by intuition. I found out that advances in science rarely come upstream from an ability to stand at a blackboard and conjure images from unfolding mathematical propositions
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Advice to young...
science rarely come upstream from an ability to stand in a blackboard and conjure images from unfolding mathematical proposition and equations they are instead the products of downstream imagination leading to hard
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The Latin America that...
shopping into a supermarket there was a huge blackboard about the entrance onto the store facing the cashiers and the aisles and three guys in stepladders were rewriting and erasing the prices of the merchandise
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Mark Pagel: How language...
And it's the dilemma that this Chinese man faces, who's language is spoken by more people in the world than any other single language, and yet he is sitting at his blackboard,
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This Blind Astrophysicist...
Tomita was very sad at the beginning and I didn't want to tell anyone so the professor will write on the blackboard
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A Grumpy Shoebill...
burtles or bobo but he picked out benito panettone who was bombing doing the wing like an extra set missile man he cushioned it on his chest knocked meg george here flicked it up one of these buns one lollipop two lollipop three and then he laid it on a plate at the barbie fierce assassin emmanuel macvittie you know the new lad we got from mayor blackboard rovers for
Video examples
Pam Warhurst: How we can...
We're just all volunteers. What could we actually do? So we did some really simple things. We fundraised, we got some blackboards, we put "Incredible Edible" on the top, we gave it every market trader that was selling locally, and they scribbled on what they were selling in any one week. Really popular. People congregated around it. Sales were up.
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Uri Alon: Why truly...
about motivation. So I turned to improvisation theater, and I told my students from day one what's going to happen when you start research, and this has to do with our mental schema of what research will be like. Because you see, whenever people do anything, for example if I want to touch this blackboard,
Video examples
Rick Smolan: A girl, a...
And I noticed that she was clowning around. When the teachers would ask questions, she'd be the first person to raise her hand. Again, not at all shy or withdrawn, or anything like the other children that I'd photographed. The first one to go to the blackboard to answer questions.
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Keith Bellows:...
And they brought quite a bit of this stuff. But over the years, the blackboards were fine, but they ran out of chalk. And this is a real crisis for them. And that's where the hyena comes in. The hyena is probably the most perfectly designed scavenging animal in the world.
Video examples
E.O. Wilson: Advice to...
The ability to form concepts with images of entities and processes pictured by intuition. I found out that advances in science rarely come upstream from an ability to stand at a blackboard and conjure images from unfolding mathematical propositions
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Advice to young...
science rarely come upstream from an ability to stand in a blackboard and conjure images from unfolding mathematical proposition and equations they are instead the products of downstream imagination leading to hard
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The Latin America that...
shopping into a supermarket there was a huge blackboard about the entrance onto the store facing the cashiers and the aisles and three guys in stepladders were rewriting and erasing the prices of the merchandise
Video examples
Mark Pagel: How language...
And it's the dilemma that this Chinese man faces, who's language is spoken by more people in the world than any other single language, and yet he is sitting at his blackboard,
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This Blind Astrophysicist...
Tomita was very sad at the beginning and I didn't want to tell anyone so the professor will write on the blackboard
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Alastair Reynolds
British Author
One of the dangers of science fiction, particularly bad science fiction, is that you have these scenes where the characters turn to a blackboard and start explaining how this faster-than-light drive works, or something like that. We never really have those conversations in real life. That's not part of the way we interact as human beings.
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John O. Brennan
American Public Servant
A lot of things look good on an academic's blackboard in terms of the actions that need to be taken. It's almost like a football coach, when you draw the X's and O's: Every play that is chalked on that board goes for a touchdown. Well, there are a lot of yards to be made between the line of scrimmage and the touchdown.
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Lucy Davis
English Actress
I'm the oldest of four children, and when I was young, I used to get the blackboard out and make my brothers and sisters sit in front of me while I taught class. They all thought I wanted to be a teacher, but I didn't. I was impersonating my teachers.
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Alex Berenson
American Author
Economics pretends to be a science. Its practitioners fill blackboards with equations and clog computers with data. But it is really a faith, or more accurately a set of overlapping and squabbling faiths, each with its own doctrines.
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Kailash Kher
Indian Musician
It's a whole new world out here. The online world is like a blackboard on which, when you write, the whole world can see - and I'm thrilled about this development. I want to make full use of it.
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Frederick Pollock
English Judge
But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard.
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Carmen Yulin Cruz
American Politician
When I was in school, I was too short to erase the blackboard. It was my job to put away the chairs.
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Iggy Pop
American Musician
I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
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Elizabeth Edwards
American Lawyer
Life is this great big blackboard, and on it you write all the things that you do.
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Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo
Going to the blackboard at school was the worst torture.
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Alastair Reynolds
British Author
One of the dangers of science fiction, particularly bad science fiction, is that you have these scenes where the characters turn to a blackboard and start explaining how this faster-than-light drive works, or something like that. We never really have those conversations in real life. That's not part of the way we interact as human beings.
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John O. Brennan
American Public Servant
A lot of things look good on an academic's blackboard in terms of the actions that need to be taken. It's almost like a football coach, when you draw the X's and O's: Every play that is chalked on that board goes for a touchdown. Well, there are a lot of yards to be made between the line of scrimmage and the touchdown.
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Lucy Davis
English Actress
I'm the oldest of four children, and when I was young, I used to get the blackboard out and make my brothers and sisters sit in front of me while I taught class. They all thought I wanted to be a teacher, but I didn't. I was impersonating my teachers.
Quote examples
Alex Berenson
American Author
Economics pretends to be a science. Its practitioners fill blackboards with equations and clog computers with data. But it is really a faith, or more accurately a set of overlapping and squabbling faiths, each with its own doctrines.
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Kailash Kher
Indian Musician
It's a whole new world out here. The online world is like a blackboard on which, when you write, the whole world can see - and I'm thrilled about this development. I want to make full use of it.
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Frederick Pollock
English Judge
But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard.
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Carmen Yulin Cruz
American Politician
When I was in school, I was too short to erase the blackboard. It was my job to put away the chairs.
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Iggy Pop
American Musician
I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
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Elizabeth Edwards
American Lawyer
Life is this great big blackboard, and on it you write all the things that you do.
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Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo
Going to the blackboard at school was the worst torture.
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