Is learning about Twitter and blogging more important than learning world history?

03-25-2009, 01:11 PM

"Children will no longer study the Second World War and Queen Victoria, but instead learn about Twitter and blogging under radical plans to overhaul primary school teaching."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1164682/Exit-Winston-Churchill-enter-Twitter---Yes-new-primary-school-curriculum.html

Not sure how much of this I believe, but if true, is it really a step in the right direction?

03-25-2009, 01:12 PM

Blimey no.

What happens if/when we have any sort of world disaster, environmental or man made, and we have no electricity?

How will any one know how to do the simple things to keep themselves alive if they can't Google it?

It's all very well teaching kids IT stuff that they'll need in the workplace but don't let them forget what came before!

03-25-2009, 01:13 PM

Wow, theres a sign of the times. I certainly think learning history should remain an option at least.

03-25-2009, 01:14 PM

I was taught History & glad of it.Maybe they could combine the 2.

03-25-2009, 01:15 PM

Oh no, we can't have our history dying out that easily.
And lets face it kids will learn about blogging etc in their own time as they should.
History is really interesting, my daughter has been encaptured by the WW2 history at school lately, its wrong to remove it from the sylabus.

03-25-2009, 01:16 PM

no it is important to learn about history, not what joey had for breakfast sunday morning.

**shiningapprentice** · 03-25-2009, 01:16 PM

neither of them are important. I have no idea what twitter is but im assuming its similar to facebook and myspace making it worthless and history is just some boring stuff that happened in the past and unless your a history major its not that helpful in real life so therefor pointless.