Thursday, March 26, 2009

Guardian.co.uk: Pupils To Study Twitter And Blogs

New syllabus in UK... more "educated" bloggers in the making :-D

Pupils to study Twitter and blogs in primary schools shake-up
• New curriculum will give teachers more freedom
• Second world war and Victoria not compulsory

Children will no longer have to study the Victorians or the second world war under proposals to overhaul the primary school curriculum, the Guardian has learned.

However, the draft plans will require children to master Twitter and Wikipedia and give teachers far more freedom to decide what youngsters should be concentrating on in classes....



Click here to read the report.

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