The internet should became a formal subject on the school curriculum – just like physics, chemistry and maths – according to an education academic. That’s because we live in an era where schoolchildren have “teachers and libraries in their pockets on their phones” and where the technology exists for them “to learn something in seconds,” says Sugata Mitra, Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University.
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