From the stuff I'm learning at the mo (which is about how to be a teacher) we are failing in that our lowest studetns are falling further behind our best performing students.

And, Kevin Hicks, special mention was made of the fact that trades are very worthwhile careers and earn well and shuffling our work to help provide students with that path alongside a well exercised brain, instead of assuming that non-academics should be left to do that as a second option.

I'm training to be a teacher at the moment. I have no idea what to say about teaching kids about social sites or anything. I would like to engage them on it, to get them to think, to realise they are in a public space.

But then that turns around on me and makes me wonder if Ishould set all the various public web spaces I keep need to become filtered and private in order to protect myself as a teacher...

And teaching them how to verify whats on wikipedia. I'll try, but it was hard enough getting them into the library to look up some information. Getting them to start cross checking, thinking about where they got the info... I'm tired already. :P

All this Wikipedia stuff has turned up over and over in the webcomics community...

http://www.websnark.com/archives/2004/11/a_modest_webcom.html
http://www.websnark.com/archives/2005/09/a_revised_modes.html
http://www.websnark.com/archives/2006/04/this_is_like_a_1.html
http://www.websnark.com/archives/2005/10/on_the_other_ha_15.html
http://www.websnark.com/archives/2005/11/however_the_ent.html
http://www.websnark.com/archives/2006/10/time_for_the_ye.html

Re: Hamish

I've heard that figure bandied about a lot and I'm beginning to question if anyone's going back and rechecking it. I remember it being related to Aenima and Undertow album sales and the population of the day, but there's been two albums and a live disc since, plus the population has grown.

I wouldn't be surprised if the figures still showed something like that, but when was the last time someone checked instead of just writing it?