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

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"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?
 
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!
 
Wow, theres a sign of the times. I certainly think learning history should remain an option at least.
 
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.
 
no it is important to learn about history, not what joey had for breakfast sunday morning.
 
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.
 
umm they need to keep history, it will be very hard for them to get rid of it. i doubt they will
 
Absolutely, if they are not taught the insignificant things in life ... where will the next generation of workshy, lard ar$e chaves come from?

The next thing you know is that they will be taught all the ins and outs of the benefits system, how to claim, how to screw the system and cheat their way through their miserable pointless lives .....

I feel better for that!
 
well since one in 5 kids leave school unable to read properly
i think reading should be THE top priority

from what i remember i was able to read by the age of 8 and possibly before then
 
I agree. Technology is getting too WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY to entrenched in our society. There's nothing wrong with reading an actual book. Or unplugging and talking to actual people.

(Im not sure of the name, but they're working on devices of entire books. To each his/her own.) These devices are making people lazy.

Schools are full of people bringing these devices TO our schools and "dumbing down" our children. Peer Pressures are hard enough as it is.
 
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