April 3, 2009

Schools taught about Twittering

Changes to the education system could see that lessons in history covering the second world war could be replaced at some point by lessons on how the micro blogging site Twitter works.

These changes will affect primary schools with a serious move for schools to teach about the inner workings of the internet and in particular blogging sites and Wikipedia.

The proposals have been made by Sir Jim Rose the former head of Ofsted and are due to be released some time this month, which will be very interesting to see.

In all primary schools will see their core subjects reduced from thirteen to six, these will include Understanding English; communication and languages; mathematical understanding; scientific and technological understanding; human, social and environmental understanding; understanding health and wellbeing and understanding arts and design.

Source [This is Gloucestershire]