English kids to learn GooglePupils will learn to write with keyboards, use spellcheckers and insert internet “hyperlinks” into text before their 11th birthday. The aim: to prevent the creation of a “digital underclass”
School age children
Lowbottom High Diaries: Yellow ribbons and buckets of coins
A pall hung over the classroom that first week as our charges came to terms with the fact that there is more to existence than MSN and Facebook, writes Trevor Diogenes.
Richard Neville: my school of hard Knox
When I attended Knox Grammar school half a century ago, assaults on children were almost a daily occurrence, writes Richard Neville.
Lowbottom High Diaries: The sound of the final bell
And now (courtesy of our sponsor Google Earth) we pan up to see revealed the wonder of Lowbottom High, writes Trevor Diogenes.
Why walking to school can be unhealthy
The areas around primary schools have become hotbeds of advertising for unhealthy foods and drinks to children, write Bridget Kelly and Lesley King.
Essay: Whatever happened to moral leadership?
Prosperity is not enough. People are comforted knowing the economy is doing well, but they also see the long run of economic security as somehow sapping our morale, writes Denis Muller.
