Thursday, January 21, 2010

In wireless age, schools begin to offer text ed

By Misty Harris, Canwest News Service

Text education is coming to Canadian schools, thanks to a new curriculum that sheds light on the dangers of sexually explicit mobile messages, textual harassment, and other potential pitfalls linked to youths' wireless communication.

The pilot textED.ca course will be introduced to 100 Grade 7 classrooms across the country this month, with full program implementation in September, according to a joint announcement being made Thursday by the Canadian Centre for Child Protection and the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association.

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