"The website is one of a number of "texts" - a choice that also includes a book and a movie - which students can choose to study in an elective called the Global Village, a course examining how the world's communities communicate and interact.

Don Carter, the English inspector at the Board of Studies, said the course was intended to teach students skills of analysis to enable them to be more discerning about content they found on the web."

- SMH.com.au