2010/1/6 Charles Matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com:
Thomas Dalton wrote:
We should issue a statement supporting the Ofqual report and correcting the Telegraph article:
See the "Wikipedia guide for teachers" thread from 6 December for some online refs I gave for article evaluation. Rebutting what the Telegraph said is probably a cul-de-sac: the Telegraph isn't going to print it, and other papers have no reason to write about the Telegraph rather than some expert source.
So I'd suggest developing a press release along the lines of amplifying the good points in what Ofqual said, taking it as an endorsement of "always read the label" type. Needs work, though. What is the story we are putting across? Roughly, there is the "riff" that school students will use the Web, like it or not; and so knowing how to use WP properly is a research skill of our time, just as is using a search engine.
I agree - my first draft starts off talking about how we support the Ofqual guidance and just mentions the Telegraph at the end. The former part should be expanded. The Ofqual issuing this guidance is newsworthy, as evidenced by the Telegraph writing about it, so we should be mostly talking about that. Please add your "riff" to the press release.