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Jan 31, 2025 | 
virtualschooling.wordpress.com | JOhn Watson |John Watson
BY JOHN WATSONThe percentage of post-secondary students taking one or more online courses has generally been higher than the percentage of K-12 students who are online, and accurate data are more available at the post-secondary level as well. Therefore, it’s worth checking in on post-secondary online learning enrollments from time to time.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
conservativehome.com | JOhn Watson |John Watson
John Watson was a partner in a City legal practice and formerly edited the online magazine Shaw Sheet. Whether Rachel Reeves adds betting expertise to her ‘undoubted’ skillset – she was of course a junior chess champion – the budget represents a giant wager. We all know that the key to national revival is an increase in GDP.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
zephyrnet.com | JOhn Watson |John Watson
BY JOHN WATSONK-12 Online Education Service Market Poised for Explosive Growth, reads the headline on the press release. That headline does exactly what it's meant to, which is to catch my eye and get me to click on the link. But it didn't get me to take the next step, which is to buy the report that is available for sale. Instead, I'm going to comment on the points being made in the press release. Why am I doing this?
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
virtualschooling.wordpress.com | JOhn Watson |John Watson
For folks who have been in the field of K-12 digital learning for a while it has been interesting to see how things have evolved. For example, the North American Council for Online Learning (NACOL) – later the International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) and then the Aurora Institute – was always very careful about not being overt in their neo-liberalism.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
virtualschooling.wordpress.com | JOhn Watson |John Watson
BY JOHN WATSONThe last post had some fun with signs, and ended with this observation:“…public agencies, including public schools, are constantly faced with outdated policies, requirements, and signals. And those policies are stifling innovation, undermining confidence in public education, and putting up roadblocks to new public schools, programs, and models of instruction.”That’s not a new observation.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
virtualschooling.wordpress.com | JOhn Watson |John Watson
BY JOHN WATSONA small but growing number of school districts, mostly rural, are implementing four day school weeks. As this phenomenon has been growing, I’ve been wondering—are some of these districts using online instruction to pick up some of the instructional gap? The short answer appears to be no. Even more interesting, perhaps, is the apparent lack of even considering some sort of hybrid approach that might meet the needs of schools, students, and teachers.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
virtualschooling.wordpress.com | JOhn Watson |John Watson
BY JOHN WATSONThe scene: A doctor’s officePatient: Doctor, my new medication doesn’t seem to be workingDoctor, looking at her chart:Hmm, the prescription is for one dose twice a day. Remind me when you started that? Patient: Oh, I never did that. I just take it once a weekDoctor: (Blank stare)Patient: I’m really frustrated that it doesn’t work. That is the medical version of ed tech’s 95% problem, from the perspective of ed tech providers and advocates.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
thespec.com | JOhn Watson |John Watson
Phytokana Ingredients, the company previously known as Phyto Organix, has been shifting their focus from processing of pea protein to faba beans, ahead of the construction of their facility in Strathmore. “2023 was a pretty tumultuous year. You had anti-dumping petitions filed against China by the US and it really created what I will call a paralysis in commercial trade.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
automation.com | Chiara Ponzellini |JOhn Watson |John Watson
Industrial-grade HMI/SCADA is ideal for creating comprehensive visualization and control for sophisticated seagoing vessels.
In the marine industry, vessels like superyachts and ships are much like seagoing factories or small cities. They are constructed from a wide variety of diverse and fragmented monitoring and control systems, each of which has gained advanced functionality and increased digitalization over the years.
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
zephyrnet.com | JOhn Watson |John Watson
By John WatsonArtificial intelligence is rapidly improving, which is creating a growing disconnect between the trajectory of AI advancement and the response from most (not all) school districts, state agencies, and associated organizations. The discourse around AI taking place in education publications, professional development, and school board meetings is mostly focused on near-term issues such as student academic integrity, and teachers' use of AI for lesson planning.
