ABSTRACT

Norman Longworth and others have argued that our society’s future economic well-being hinges on the success with which the education service will produce individuals sufficiently flexible and adaptable in their thinking and actions to handle the changing demands that the information technology revolution is ushering in. Marking, in one of its everyday meanings, invites the teacher to make a judgement of worth about the products pupils produce. It seems equally important educationally that we should keep alive the idea of ‘unfinished purposes’ in the classroom. The image of the teacher as space creator and classroom historian developing his/her neglecting skills is but a phrase to carry an idea about pupils developing a more dynamic relationship with the world of their own ideas, and using the technology to create and communicate publicly those ideas.