Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Teaching how to use Wikipedia to be compulsory in primary schools

2009-03-26 Thread Gordon Joly
At 23:53 + 25/3/09, David Gerard wrote: 2009/3/25 Sean Whitton s...@silentflame.com: This is precisely my point. The press are obsessed with it and it is increasingly used for commercial purposes. But it will be interesting to see how long it lasts. Maybe the draft review mentioned it

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Teaching how to use Wikipedia to be compulsory in primary schools

2009-03-26 Thread Sean Whitton
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 23:51, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/3/25 Sean Whitton s...@silentflame.com: That is however off-topic. It would be fantastic to teach people to use Wikipedia properly at a young age. Then we wouldn't have so much misunderstanding when it comes to using it

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Teaching how to use Wikipedia to be compulsory in primary schools

2009-03-26 Thread Sam Korn
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote: 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

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Teaching how to use Wikipedia to be compulsory in primary schools

2009-03-26 Thread David Gerard
2009/3/25 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com: 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

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Teaching how to use Wikipedia to be compulsory in primary schools

2009-03-26 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/3/26 Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com: At 16:17 + 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

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Teaching how to use Wikipedia to be compulsory in primary schools

2009-03-25 Thread Paul Williams
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote: It looks like there may be a little more demand for my proposal for WMUK to go into schools... Seconded! As an employee in the education sector - I know that Wiki* can and will be a very valuable tool when used

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Teaching how to use Wikipedia to be compulsory in primary schools

2009-03-25 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/3/25 Paul Williams p...@skenmy.com: On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: It looks like there may be a little more demand for my proposal for WMUK to go into schools... Seconded! As an employee in the education sector - I know that Wiki* can

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Teaching how to use Wikipedia to be compulsory in primary schools

2009-03-25 Thread David Gerard
2009/3/25 Sean Whitton s...@silentflame.com: This is precisely my point. The press are obsessed with it and it is increasingly used for commercial purposes. But it will be interesting to see how long it lasts. Maybe the draft review mentioned it because Number Ten has a Twitter feed and so

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Teaching how to use Wikipedia to be compulsory in primary schools

2009-03-25 Thread Al Tally
At school today I was busy admiring some of the work on the wall. The kids (year 2) had been working on important buildings, and one particular one on Buckingham Palace caught my eye. It went something like *Buckingham Palace*is the official London http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London residence of

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Teaching how to use Wikipedia to be compulsory in primary schools

2009-03-25 Thread Al Tally
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote: 2009/3/26 Al Tally majorly.w...@googlemail.com: At school today I was busy admiring some of the work on the wall. The kids (year 2) had been working on important buildings, and one particular one on Buckingham