Help design Scotland's Internet Safety Qualification

A few months ago you might have remembered a post where I was a little critical of the SQA Internet Safety qualification, which seemed to miss out any mention of the extra complexities introduced by social media in our kids' use of the net. There were fourteen comments on that from people wanting to chip in and help form an 'alternative curriculum'.

Well, you can't say they don't listen. Bobby has just posted news of the official qualification development wiki. Educators (and students?) are invited to head on over to add anything they think has been omitted from the internet safety outline and make any necessary corrections. I think this is a brilliant example of an organisation realising that the collective wealth of its users is better than anything one individual or group of individuals could come up with in the confines of the 7th floor Optima Building.

That said, I'm sat on the 8th floor and I still haven't met Bobby. Do we need a coffee now the wiki's up?

Update: And now there's a Skype chat on Thursday to talk things over!!!

Comments

[David Gilmour]

That link needs fixed. Or you're trying to point to two Skypechats... :-)

[Ewan McIntosh]

Done! Thanks.

[Bobby Elliott]

Thanks for your support Ewan. Yes, we need to meet! In fact, we have - sort of. I listened to your talk at SCET about Web 2 - and enjoyed it a great deal.

The Skyecast went well today - for those who could actually get Skype through their firewall. These technologies have great potential - but are constrained by school security systems.