Pupils to study Twitter and blogs in primary shake-up

 

The Guardian reports that blogging and Twittering could soon replace traditional subjects on the curriculum at primary schools.

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.

The proposed curriculum, which would mark the biggest change to primary schooling in a decade, strips away hundreds of specifications about the scientific, geographical and historical knowledge pupils must accumulate before they are 11 to allow schools greater flexibility in what they teach. Full story >>

COMMENTS
I sometimes think I'm the only person on the planet who is not Twittering (or should that be "tweeting"?) I've had a look at a few Twitter pages but just can't work up any enthusiasm. Give me a well-written blog post any day. It's already bad enough having students checking their mobile phones for text messages every five minutes. Soon they'll all be Twittering as well!

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