5 Reasons Why Twitter And UK's Primary School Curriculum Do Not Mix Well

(5) Learning concepts not products

Going down the route of learning products rather than concepts is dangerous indeed since this could dumb down learners, who would end up disoriented should Wikipedia or Twitter change their user interface, close down or introduce radically different features. Far fetched? How many times have you heard colleagues saying that they will learn Microsoft Word, rather Word processing, Excel, instead of Spreadsheet, Powerpoint, rather than A presentation Package and Windows rather than an operating system.

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