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We need to prepare young people for the realities of the online world

The curriculum must stop teaching for an analogue age and help pupils keep up with the information revolution
Jeremy Hayward Guest Contributor

Lecturer, UCL Institute of Education

4 min read
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Teachers around the country keep telling me the same thing: the internet is no longer staying online, it is walking through the school gates and into the classroom.

Sometimes it bursts through. Like Andrew Tate, 6/7, online bullying and the recent red/blue schools “wars” experienced in some areas.

Sometimes it has crept in slowly like the language of the manosphere, dietary fads, warped narratives about crime, gender and politics and strange conspiracy theories.

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