Children as young as five should be given lessons in how to deal with the onslaught of adverts hurled at them, a government inquiry has found.
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Digital student | guardian.co.uk - 0 views
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Technology in further and higher education
24 hours in pictures | News | guardian.co.uk - 0 views
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A selection of the best images from daily news around the world.
Whether the digital era improves society is up to its users - that's us | Danah Boyd | ... - 4 views
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a battle between those with utopian and dystopian viewpoints, over who can have a more extreme perspective on technology. So where's the middle ground?
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With this complexity in mind, I would like to introduce a question that I have been struggling with for the past few years: what role does social media play in generating or spreading societal fear?
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We fear the things – and people – that we do not understand far more than the things we do,
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Climate change is a matter of justice | Desmond Tutu and Mary Robinson | Environment | ... - 2 views
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Environment - Durban climate change conference 2011
Pupils to study Twitter and blogs in primary shake-up | Education | The Guardian - 0 views
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The proposals would require:• Children to leave primary school familiar with blogging, podcasts, Wikipedia and Twitter as sources of information and forms of communication. They must gain "fluency" in handwriting and keyboard skills, and learn how to use a spellchecker alongside how to spell.
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Children to be able to place historical events within a chronology. "By the end of the primary phase, children should have gained an overview which enables them to place the periods, events and changes they have studied within a chronological framework, and to understand some of the links between them
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The six core areas are: understanding English, communication and languages, mathematical understanding, scientific and technological understanding, human, social and environmental understanding, understanding physical health and wellbeing, and understanding arts and design.
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Don't blame me for creating stories on Twitter, says Stephen Fry | Media | guardian.co.uk - 0 views
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"Twitter is about participating - by which I mean you tweet and read other people's tweets. Then you understand it, and get its rhythm. But remember: It is about being authentic. These things are human-shaped." "