British kids are to start studying Twitter, Wikipedia and blogging in primary school, in lieu of more traditional pedagogic methods, such as learning important things that might actually shape a life-worthy individual.

According to the Guardian, the precious little snowflakes and their teachers will have a lot more flexibility in their curriculum. The man with the plan is Sir Jim Rose, former Ofsted chief, appointed by Her Majesty's Government to revamp the primary school curriculum. His plans are reportedly to be published next month, so let's take a look at them.

Kids are to leave primary school with some knowledge of blogging, podcasts, Wikipedia and Twitter as sources of information. They will also have to be fluent in handwriting and keyboard skills, and learn how to use spellchecker. (This is, actually a good one, although it might cost me my job. sub.ed.)

Children are to be able to place historical events within a chronology. With Wikipedia and Twitter this should not be a problem, provided they know how to read.

Schools are to place less emphasis on the use of calculators than now, and this is one we actually agree with, no sarcasm, honest.

Kids are to leave school with an understanding of physical development, health and wellbeing programmes. We are confident they will have a full understanding, as they will google it, although they'll probably be morbidly obese from sitting in front of their computers all day long.

Don't get us wrong, teaching children to use technology at an early age is a good idea, as long as technology doesn't become a substitute for traditional teaching methods, but rather a tool to advance them.

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