Recortes de Prensa: “Wikipedia y Twitter al Currículum de la Educación Primaria en Reino Unido” (The Guardian)

La propuesta de reforma de la educación primaria en el Reino Unido presentada esta semana, además de enfatizar en las áreas tradicionales de lenguaje, aritmética e historia,  incluye una innovación extraordinaria: Busca que al terminar este nivel de enseñanza, los niños y niñas británicos sean capaces de utilizar las nuevas herramientas que ofrece internet como los blogs, los podcast, y por supuesto Wikipedia o Twitter.

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Pupils to study Twitter and Blogs in Primary Schools Shake Up
By Polly Curtis.
The Guardian, 25 March 2009

 New curriculum will give teachers more freedom. Second world war and Victoria not compulsory

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. (…)

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