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syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = 'Computers in Classrooms -- next edition - UPDATE';
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- Using computers to raise standards in mathematics
- The White Paper: your child, your schools, our future: building a 21st century school system
- Amazing Greats
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Rather than respond immediately to the publication of the Rose Review of the Primary Curriculum, I have looked at the report and some additional documentation, and produced a Computers in Classrooms Briefing as a result.
In the briefing, I have summarised the main points of the documentation in terms of information and communications technology (ICT), and added my own comments. I hope that this will prove to be useful for colleagues as a basis for discussion and as a handy summary of the proposed changes.
The briefing also includes a comparison of the current Level Descriptors for ICT and the proposed changes to them. I find it inconvenient to keep flipping from one document to another in order to compare the two versions of each statement, and if you have a similar opinion then you should find this combination of the two sets quite useful – I know I do!
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\n - Is social networking all bad?, by Terry Freedman
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\n - Facebook\'s flawed photo privacy, by Dai Barnes, with additional reporting by Lois Whitehead
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\n - The Facebook party-pooper: tips for protecting your privacy on Facebook, by Scott N Wright
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\n - Meet Henri: a novel approach to raising personal safety awareness in the primary school, by Dughall McCormick
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