Tweet-y pie - all of a twitter

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Permalink Reply by Hugh on March 25, 2009 at 11:53

Interesting reaction Omotn. It never would have occurred to me.

But I'm 99.99% certain that there's absolutely nothing sinister in this at all. They're very unlikely to be checking on you. It seems like their Twitter stream is designed to keep us up to date with what the council are doing. It's another way of giving us information and I applaud it. As to how they found you, if I was them, I'd have looked at who follows Harringay Online, the local politicians etc and followed those people.


As with anyone on Twitter, if you don't want to be followed, just block them. But, I'll be giving my support, encouraging a great initiative and following them back.

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Permalink Reply by Liz on March 25, 2009 at 12:06

Yes, I'm pleased to see them. When you are looking for people to follow when you start on Twitter, you do exactly what Hugh says and you hope that the message will spread about what you are doing and you attract more followers.

They are unlikely to be 'monitoring' you but if they are, use it to make a point about all the things that bug you. It's a two way conversation and if you can hear them, they can hear what we are talking about and it may influence more than you know.

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Permalink Reply by Danzigger on March 25, 2009 at 13:15

Hey, I'll take all the followers I can get (currently 2, including LBHaringey)
Not that there's much going on in my twitter-verse.

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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on March 25, 2009 at 13:42

Pardon my intrusion, O Twitterati, but did I hear on 'Today' today that Primary school pupils are no longer to spend time learning about the Victorians and World War II (thought the latter was more Year 9ish?) to free up their curriculum to equip them to function fluently on Facebook, Flicker, Twitter, Natter, Pitter-patter ... et al. ? I rather think I had fallen back to my sub-duvet dreamworld after my 6.30 cuppa. Or was it something my work-bound missus put in the tea out of pure envy?

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Permalink Reply by Danzigger on March 25, 2009 at 13:56

You weren't dreaming, or drugged, but you were slightly mislead.
The proposal is for children to be taught to use modern media for communicating, sharing and obtaining information. This includes fluency with the Internet, Web 2.0 and Social Networking. Twitter, Facebook and Wikipedia are given as examples of modern forms of communication.
Makes a lot of sense really.
Full Article here

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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on March 25, 2009 at 15:02

Thanks Danzigger. I've caught up with it now. Partly reassured, partly not. Granted this is a shorthand report of a so far unpublished review - but why the fuss and confusion between media, tools and message/content? Yes, primary/secondary pupils, even college/university undergraduates need to be taught how to USE rather than ABUSE Wikipedia or any other primary or secondary source, but in my limited experience children 60 years my junior will pick up the basics of Twitter, Flicker, Facebook etc en masse in half a morning, far faster and more fluently than even their 20/30-something teachers. Whether or not anyone needs to spend weeks on either the Victorians or any war at Primary level is another question. If Class 5 or 6 at N or S Harringay want to become experts on the Victorian origins and Edwardian development of Harringay Ladder, I'm sure in the process they will become experts in their use of media and tools such as HOL, Wikipedia, Internet, email, blogging, Facebook, Twitter, even books, newspapers, libraries and desktop publishing. Yes, pupils and teachers need to be 'freed up' from some of the curricular straitjackets of the past twenty years, not necessarily from the greater scope for creative learning of the previous thirty.

Apologies, Tweet-y pie and Sylvester, for interrupting your fun.

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Permalink Reply by Omotn on March 25, 2009 at 15:24

Your after thought of an apology is assuredly not accepted. I now believe you may be the very apparatchik I referred to earlier, sitting in the Ukraine, quite possibly in an ivory (or lapis lazuli) tower, following my every internet move (no need with this one its addressed to you), starting disruptive and disconcerting responses designed only to distract us from the intrusive monitoring you are carrying out. Just because I'm paranoid does not mean they are not getting at me. Excuse me while I shred every letter ever addressed to me and set up a new email account.
Of course the Victorians are important, we need the double standards of their society, and WWII - lest we forget.

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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on March 25, 2009 at 17:06

Relax, Omotn. Save your efforts. We're already inside your head.

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Permalink Reply by Omotn on March 25, 2009 at 18:07

I know - I can hear you whispering - I've rarely suffered such condescension.

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Permalink Reply by Danzigger on March 25, 2009 at 15:26

I take your point. Sadly I think it is probably to with with setting targets for the education of primary school children. If at the end of seven years education, an eleven year old is web-savvy and computer literate, the school can claim to have taught them life skills that will be useful, despite the fact that children will learn these skills regardless of the school curriculum.

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Permalink Reply by Hugh on March 26, 2009 at 15:00

Omotn, I stand by what I said, but yo may be interested in this story that's blew up today by coincidence.

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