http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8565258.stm
What are they teaching kids nowadays?
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| Author: | Amnesia10 [ Sat Mar 13, 2010 11:44 am ] |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8565258.stm What are they teaching kids nowadays?
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| Author: | rustybucket [ Sat Mar 13, 2010 12:33 pm ] | |||||||||
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Not really a fair comment tbh
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| Author: | pcernie [ Sat Mar 13, 2010 2:24 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Queen invented phone, pupils say |
Reading that, they just seem to have gone for the names they recognised, which is fair enough if nobody has told them any different 
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| Author: | Linux_User [ Sat Mar 13, 2010 2:32 pm ] |
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As I've said before - I don't see much value in teaching just facts - I'd much rather children be taught decent research skills so they know how to find out things for themselves. |
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| Author: | belchingmatt [ Sat Mar 13, 2010 6:28 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Queen invented phone, pupils say |
Don't forget that there are adults who believe god made everything, so why can't children believe the queen made the phone. |
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| Author: | Amnesia10 [ Sat Mar 13, 2010 7:50 pm ] | |||||||||
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Yes but are they doing that? |
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| Author: | Linux_User [ Sat Mar 13, 2010 7:57 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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I have no idea. Certainly when I was at school it was still very book-centric - which is completely pointless. I am now at University and I don't go anywhere near books - the information is simply too old and out of date. A book as little as two years old can be completely out of date and irrelevant. All of my research involves journals, databases such as LexisNexis and the internet. This is where we should be headed - buying physical books is a complete waste of time for anything but primary schools IMO. |
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| Author: | Amnesia10 [ Sat Mar 13, 2010 8:13 pm ] | |||||||||
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There are many facts that never change, like the inventor of the telephone. Some facts at the higher levels may change daily but for school kids books still are very sensible. History can change over time but slowly. I learnt tectonic plate theory and monetarism at school even though it was new. Books may go out of date but not as fast as some would think. |
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| Author: | belchingmatt [ Sat Mar 13, 2010 8:44 pm ] |
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Some books age more than others, that is true. Just make sure you don't assume that everything you can find on the internet is current or true. |
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| Author: | ShockWaffle [ Sun Mar 14, 2010 11:52 am ] | |||||||||
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And who was that? I seem to recall claims that Bell stole it from some other bloke. |
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| Author: | HeatherKay [ Sun Mar 14, 2010 12:22 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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It was Steve Jobs, obviously. 
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| Author: | belchingmatt [ Sun Mar 14, 2010 2:22 pm ] |
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There is a big difference between invention and patent. $$$$$$$$$ |
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