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EDUCATION Secretary Michael Gove is urging Bristol schools to place more emphasis on teaching their students local history.
He has launched a £2.7 million programme with English Heritage to recruit "heritage brokers" to work with groups of schools.
Mr Gove said school children should visit historical sites in their neighbourhood and be inspired by "our rich island story".
His suggestions for Bristol include visiting Brunel's ss Great Britain and Temple Meads station to experience the pinnacles of Victorian engineering; walking around the Floating Harbour to learn about the city's trading history and its part in the slave trade; visiting the remains of Bristol's manufacturing industries such as sugar refining, glass making and paper bag making; and exploring the city's numerous parks.
The Education Secretary said: "All of these are the physical remains of the rich, controversial and thrilling story of England.
"All belong to the people locally, and local children who visit them will be inspired to delve further."
Simon Thurley, chief executive of English Heritage, said: "Our Heritage Schools initiative will bring history to life both in the classroom and out of it, weaving it into the life of the community and endowing present and future generations of children with a vivid understanding of the place in which they grew up."
The project also encourages schools to consider ways to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the First World War in 1914, encouraging them to link with organisations to identify servicemen who lived in their area, or study war memorials.
Schools in Bristol have worked with the museums service to create a Bristol curriculum, centred on the new M shed, which uses examples from the city and local area as well as museum collections to help children learn of their community heritage.
Kingswood MP Chris Skidmore, author of books on the Tudors, backs more local history teaching
"Pupils shouldn't be taught history as if it were some kind of Doctor Who time-travelling fantasy. There needs to be a chronological focus," he said in a recent article.
Steve Ryan, a historian who is deputy head at QEH school and a governor at Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Primary, said: "Its only by understanding the past that students can hope to understand the present. History also teaches vital analytical and research skills."
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A new study out from Pew today confirms what we already know: People don't want to collect as many Facebook friends as possible. Social networkers are becoming more selective, managing their accounts and "pruning" people from their lists. More users are untagging themselves from photos, deleting comments and unfriending others. Women and younger users tend to prune more than others: 67% of women with social network site profiles have deleted users compared with 58% of men.
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Increased privacy and reputation management on social networks is important, especially in the Timeline post-Facebook IPO era. Facebook is no longer that confusing shiny new toy; it is a part of our digital lives. Quit now if you want; or figure out how to best manage the personality that you want others to see.
Today, more than half of social networkers (58%) say their main profile is set to friends-only; 19% set their profile as viewable to friends of friends in addition to just friends. Only 20% of users leave their profile completely public. That last set of people are most likely a mix of Facebook power users, whose profiles are meant only as hubs for discussion and conversation, and uninformed users who do not know how to adjust their privacy settings.
To that point, 48% of social media users say that managing privacy controls is difficult, yet a total 49% say it is quite easy. Only 2% have a "very difficult time" with privacy settings.
The study also reveals that 11% of users say they have posted content they regret. Men are more than twice as regretful as women: 15% say they wish they hadn't shared certain information, versus only 8% of women. But men are more likely to set their profiles to public or partially private, which leads one to infer that perhaps it's less about the content they post and more about the pruning they should be doing.
Similarly, young adults ages 18-29 confess to posting content they wish they hadn't shared. It's true: We are vulnerable on social networks.
Most social network users are concentrated on Facebook. According to Pew, 93% of profile owners have an account on Facebook, which is a 20% increase from 2009. Twitter has grown significantly since 2009; more than 55% of social networkers are on Twitter, up from 45% three years ago.
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