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Are you More Social than a 5th Grader?

Posted in social media impact. on Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 by Ryan
Mar 25

According to UK newspaper, The Guardian, Children across the nation will be taught the ins and outs of a number of social media platforms including Twitter, Wikipedia, blogging, and podcasting tools. These changes are part of a draft proposed to to overhaul the primary school curriculum.

The new curriculum would reflect the biggest change to primary schooling in the past decade. The plan, which strips away hundreds of traditional specifications to allow schools and teachers much more flexibility in what they teach including more modern media and web-based skills.

With the speed at which technology and society shift, schools are often well enough behind the times. This shift in the focus of education marks a HUGE change for the UK school system, one that I personally would love to see here in the U.S.

What do you think? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments below! 

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Nancypub

I wonder what the objective is? If it is to teach communication and research skills, as well as critical thinking, then I am all for it. But I have a feeling its not all that well thought out.

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James

Good, im sure as with anything, it'll be a bumpy road until they see this through but it looks promising

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Mark Cuppler

I would love to see it here in the States as well. Not sure i would want it to replace most of the core subjects in schools but maybe be integrated, for example, in a history class teach students to use wikipedia, and in an english class, including writing for the web and let them try out writing a blog...

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