2009/3/26 Gordon Joly <gordon.j...@pobox.com>: > 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.) _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
