Does your school still use chalk or markers?

Thats a different and an interesting question and yes still most of the schools even the colleges uses chalk. Very few, those which are top schools and colleges use the white board instead of the black board.

My school, i.e. the school that I was in probably still uses chalk, because all the blackboards were quite new when I left school and would last for atleast 25 years! However, the last time I sat in a classroom was for a training, and they used markers. It was boring. There is no fun or that classroom effect unless we have that blackboard and the chalk.

the school which my nephew visits have shifted from using chalks to markers and white board...... this was a demand put up by the school teachers concerning their health and it was good on the part of the management to do the shift.

well they use markers,it's a lot cleaner safer and cheaper.

My school uses markers or powerpoints (a computerised slide show). I think this is much better as its more effective and clearer.

To reduce allergies and irritants (and how long it takes to clean the classrooms), the school my children attend uses dry-erase markers for all of their classroom work. They also use easel pads with markers for work they want to refer back to often.

Some lecture halls still use chalk here, some have white boards. I like PowerPoints and other stuff better than boards though. It's hard to read the professor's writing sometimes. Plus, both chalk and white boards have problems. Chalk breaks, squeaks, etc. Markers run out of ink frequently.

Yes in many of our schools there are still using chalks, But in higher education institutes we dont use it. so mix types of things we have.

I think markers should be more used than chalks, markers are more easy to and more applicable for the health of the students. But I think it's hard for some of our public to provide for it, since they need budget just to provide for their everyday uses of markers and the white boards that they would. I think I've seen only a few of it, during my college days, we even still use chalks and in some other rooms we use markers. markers would be the best for a change and for healthier reasons.

My school is using chalks...I`m sure that markers would be better than chalks, but I can`t change anything right now!:(

no, we're not using chalks anymore! markers are more convenient.

Our school use both chalk and markers. And it depends on the type of classroom we use. In terms of writing convenience, markers are good for teachers whose penmanship needs improvement.

In my building or department we have white boards so we don't use chalks.. we use markers while in other departments they use chalk.

none of us uses chalks at school....yes i think that this is better to use than to use chalk.....because chalks are not good especially if you are asthmatic....whenever you inhale chalks you will cough and sneeze....marker in my experience in school the class never complain about health problems,but for chalks most of us are complaining because most of us are asthmatic....

i dont know, havent been going to school for a long time. i graduate school a long time, but in elementary and secondary school here in the philippines, i think they still use chalk.

We still make use of chalk in school. Most of the schools here in the Philippines actually are still making use of chalk. 90 % make use of chalk in our school, though, I guess there was a research done that chalk might be cancerous of some sort I'll just have to find out if it's true.

I like using Markers better myself. Chalk is ok but Markers just seem better to me.

My school still use chalks but I had some classes wherein we use markers instead of chalks. I don't like chalks at all because it's very dusty and it makes me sneeze when I am sitting infront. Markers are much better because it is neat.

In my classroom we use a chalkboard. We are in a portable now but will be moving into our building next month, then we will have whiteboards. I prefer markers because the chalk makes such a big mess.

I think there are still alot of classrooms and schools here who uses chalk rather than marker. I dont know why. Its there some advantage to using one over the other?