British schools to teach about Web 2.0 applications

• British pupils to get lessons on Twitter: report - Yahoo!7 News

  Children in British junior schools could soon be taking lessons in Internet applications like Twitter under proposals to change school curriculums, the Guardian newspaper reported Wednesday. Under the shakeup, schools would require students to have a good understanding of blogging, podcasts, Twitter and Wikipedia, the paper said.

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Whilst education systems are generally slow to adapt to change, some systems are not as slow as others and the British education system looks like it has decided to be relevant by teaching students how to understand and use existing web communications technologies.