The Telegraph reports from the UK:
“Computing skills will be put on an equal footing with literacy and numeracy in an overhaul of primary education that aims to slim down the curriculum – but not lose the basics.
“Children will be taught to read using internet search engines such as Google and Yahoo in the first few years of school, it is announced.
“Pupils in English primary schools will learn to write with keyboards, use spellcheckers and insert internet “hyperlinks” into text before their 11th birthday under the most significant reform of timetables since the National Curriculum was introduced in 1988.
“The review by Sir Jim Rose, former head of inspections at Ofsted, also recommends the use of Google Earth in geography lessons, spreadsheets to calculate budgets in maths, online archives to research local history and video conferencing software for joint language lessons with schools overseas.
“Sir Jim insisted the changes would not replace come at the expense of traditional teaching, saying: ‘We cannot sidestep the basics”‘ . . .”
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