2009/3/26 Gordon Joly <gordon.joly(a)pobox.com>om>:
At 16:17 +0000 25/3/09, Thomas Dalton wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7962912.stm
"The Guardian said the draft review requires primary school children
to be familiar with blogging, podcasts, Wikipedia and Twitter as
sources of information and forms of communication."
It looks like there may be a little more demand for my proposal for
WMUK to go into schools...
As I recall, "projects in schools" was always part of Wikimedia UK
(1.0 and 2.0) thinking....
The announcement is rather odd. Bit like saying "children should
watch more television" in the 1950s and 1960s. Twitter, WIkimedia,
Bebo, Facebook, MySpace are (social) media: is the suggestion that
they start media studies in school from the first day? Or is the
suggestion that 5 year olds become Wikipedia editors?
Wikipedia isn't social, it's academic. Learning how to use various
academic media seems like a good thing to do in school. (We're talking
about reading Wikipedia rather than contributing to it, I think -
although if we do go into schools I'd like to talk briefly about
editing too.)