{"id":1271,"date":"2021-04-24T08:27:43","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T06:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/24\/dear-gavin-williamson-teenagers-use-mobile-phones-get-with-the-times-michael-rosen\/"},"modified":"2021-04-24T08:27:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T06:27:43","slug":"dear-gavin-williamson-teenagers-use-mobile-phones-get-with-the-times-michael-rosen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/24\/dear-gavin-williamson-teenagers-use-mobile-phones-get-with-the-times-michael-rosen\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Gavin Williamson, teenagers use mobile phones. Get with the times | Michael Rosen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why not applaud the explosion of literacy in texts and posts? Better to welcome rather than vilify a tool that can play a part in learning<\/p>\n<p>I heard you on the radio the other day, explaining why you thought the proposed European Super League was a bad idea. I must say I was surprised, as I thought your hands were full with the matter of this summer\u2019s GCSE and A-level assessments.<\/p>\n<p>How\u2019s that going? If my youngest is anyone to go by, the situation is as clear as mud \u2013 not the school\u2019s fault by any means. I have a sense the education department has been dragged kicking and screaming into accepting the inevitable \u2013 that you will have to trust teachers to assess students. Even so, you and your department are so annoyed at having to let go of your usual control-freakery, you\u2019ve inserted exam-like tests into the process. Right now, I have a sense this is the lull before the storm. Come August and the publication of the exam results, a mighty furore will break out. Again. And you can <em>not<\/em> resign. Again.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2021\/apr\/24\/dear-gavin-williamson-teenagers-use-mobile-phones-get-with-the-times\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/717a42d168d1ca3f6a5f78374d50caa76c1c9784\/0_171_5120_3072\/master\/5120.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ae5d8aa095b6a185efda4d6c9e95571b\" title=\"Dear Gavin Williamson, teenagers use mobile phones. Get with the times | Michael Rosen\" \/>Why not applaud the explosion of literacy in texts and posts? Better to welcome rather than vilify a tool that can play a part in learning<br \/>\nI heard you on the radio the other day, explaining why you thought the proposed European Super League was a bad idea. I must say I was surprised, as I thought your hands were full with the matter of this summer\u2019s GCSE and A-level assessments.<br \/>\nHow\u2019s that going? If my youngest is anyone to go by, the situation is as clear as mud \u2013 not the school\u2019s fault by any means. I have a sense the education department has been dragged kicking and screaming into accepting the inevitable \u2013 that you will have to trust teachers to assess students. Even so, you and your department are so annoyed at having to let go of your usual control-freakery, you\u2019ve inserted exam-like tests into the process. Right now, I have a sense this is the lull before the storm. Come August and the publication of the exam results, a mighty furore will break out. Again. And you can not resign. Again. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why not applaud the explosion of literacy in texts and posts? Better to welcome rather than vilify a tool that can play a part in learning I heard you on the radio the other day, explaining why you thought the proposed European Super League was a bad idea. I must say I was surprised, as &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/24\/dear-gavin-williamson-teenagers-use-mobile-phones-get-with-the-times-michael-rosen\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dear Gavin Williamson, teenagers use mobile phones. Get with the times | Michael Rosen<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}