On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 16:17, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7962912.stm
"The Guardian said the draft review requires primary school children to be familiar with blogging, podcasts, Wikipedia and Twitter as sources of information and forms of communication."
It looks like there may be a little more demand for my proposal for WMUK to go into schools...
The thing about Twitter really makes me laugh. Maybe the idea of microblogging and status updates on the likes of Facebook and Bebo makes sense. But I'm not convinced Twitter is sufficiently mainstream - or established as something more than a fad - to deserve a full treatment.
That is however off-topic. It would be fantastic to teach people to use Wikipedia properly at a young age. Then we wouldn't have so much misunderstanding when it comes to using it for coursework later on, at GCSE level. So this sounds good.
Sean