The power of Social Media seems to have not gone unnoticed by the education sector as some schools begin to introduce lessons based around Social Media.

Entitled Social Media Fundamentals, the programme will be taught to GCSE level students as part of their English Language qualification. The idea behind the course is for students to improve their communication skills online. Using websites such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter lessons will teach students how to improve their web skills and how to promote themselves to potential employers online for the future.

Bishop Challoner Catholic School in East London is set to be the first school to incorporate the course into the English Language curriculum but several other schools across the UK; in London, Newcastle and Edinburgh have expressed interest and requested an introductory workshop.

Courses will be conducted by Andrew Davis, former head of Marketing at MySpace and he will begin teaching the four week long course through October this year to thirty students who have applied to the programme.

Source: The Telegraph