Students to Study Twitter and Blogs in British Primary Schools Shakeup
Guardian, March 25, 2009
By Polly Curtis
Children in Great Britain will no longer have to study the Victorians or the second world war under proposals to overhaul the primary school curriculum. 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.
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