Colleagues/ Recent-Late-Breaking-Revolutionary News ... !!! /Gerry The Guardian: Blogging / Podcasting / Twitter / Wikipedia - The Future Of (UK) Education? 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. [snip] The papers seen by the Guardian are draft plans for the detailed content of each of six core "learning areas" that Rose is proposing should replace the current 13 standalone subject areas. The proposals would require: * Children to leave primary school familiar with blogging, podcasts, Wikipedia and Twitter as sources of information and forms of communication. [snip] [snip] The six core areas are: understanding English, communication and languages, mathematical understanding, scientific and technological understanding, human, social and environmental understanding, understanding physical health and wellbeing, and understanding arts and design. [More] Links To Full Article and Companion Audio Interview Available At [ http://tinyurl.com/cu49jc ] What Will They Do Next? Sanction Membership In Social Networks [:-) Enjoy! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu There is Nothing More Powerful Than An Idea Whose Time Has Come / Victor Hugo [ http://www.blogger.com/profile/09093368136660604490 ] Iowa: Where the Tall Corn Flows and the (North)West Wind Blows [ http://alternativeenergyblogs.blogspot.com/ ]