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# Twitterage
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/twitterage/
- Published: 2009-03-29T22:26:18.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-28T09:16:22.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Social

I spent much of last week in Edinburgh for the [JISC Conference](https://www.jisc.ac.uk/jiscconference09?ref=lorcandempsey.net), of which maybe more later. JISC has a heavy communications component and strongly encourages ‘[amplification](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amplified%5Fconference?ref=lorcandempsey.net)‘ of conference activity through blogging, Twitter, video streaming, and so on. This might be one reason that discussions about Twitter are what I most remember of the event, partly because of the occasional questions about level of use from speakers or exhortations to participate.  
It polarized somewhat: a familiar complacent cliquishness at one end and a defensive affected incomprehension at the other. I didn’t sense that this was generational, but there did seem to be a managerial gap, with ‘senior’ people often towards the latter pole.  
Incidentally, proposals to overhaul the primary (aka elementary) school curriculum were leaked while I was there. Twitter was central to the coverage …..

> Children will no longer have to study the Victorians or the second world war under proposals to overhaul the primary school curriculum, the Guardian has learned.

> However, the draft plans will require children to master Twitter and Wikipedia and give teachers far more freedom to decide what youngsters should be concentrating on in classes. \[[Pupils to study Twitter and blogs in primary shake-up | Education | The Guardian](https://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/mar/25/primary-schools-twitter-curriculum?ref=lorcandempsey.net)\]

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