{"id":4002,"date":"2010-04-21T12:51:28","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T16:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=4002"},"modified":"2010-04-21T12:57:36","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T16:57:36","slug":"another-example-of-the-pace-of-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/04\/21\/another-example-of-the-pace-of-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Another example of the pace of change &#8212; and disruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From DSC:<br \/>\nConsider the following timeline of the Florida Virtual School according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.tbo.com\/content\/2010\/apr\/11\/na-a-school-sans-walls\/\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">1997: Florida Virtual School is founded.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">2002: Hillsborough County establishes a  virtual school program for high school classes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">2007: Hillsborough County starts offering  middle school classes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">2008: Hillsborough County starts the  elementary program.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">2009: New state law requires school  districts to offer full-time virtual classes for K-12 students.<\/p>\n<p>Now consider that they started with 77 students.<\/p>\n<p>Now consider that the &#8220;&#8230;program <strong><span style=\"color: #6600cc;\">served more than  71,000 students during the 2008-2009 school year,<\/span><\/strong> according to its Web  site.&#8221; (emphasis DSC)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2564\" title=\"daniel-christian-thepacehaschanged\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/daniel-christian-thepacehaschanged1.jpg\" alt=\"The pace has changed significantly and quickly\" width=\"480\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/daniel-christian-thepacehaschanged1.jpg 480w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/daniel-christian-thepacehaschanged1-150x110.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #6600cc;\"><strong>Do not underestimate the disruptive impact of technology.<br \/>\nAnd I realize it&#8217;s not just about the technology&#8230;it&#8217;s about people.<br \/>\nBut technology can connect people to each other at ever-increasing speeds.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From DSC: Consider the following timeline of the Florida Virtual School according to this article: 1997: Florida Virtual School is founded. 2002: Hillsborough County establishes a virtual school program for high school classes. 2007: Hillsborough County starts offering middle school classes. 2008: Hillsborough County starts the elementary program. 2009: New state law requires school districts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143,46,285,44,201,164],"tags":[641,4,27,590,673,165],"class_list":["post-4002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disruption","category-k-12-related","category-legislation-legislatures","category-pace-of-change","category-policy","category-virtual-k-12-schools","tag-disruption","tag-k-12","tag-legislation","tag-pace-of-change","tag-policy","tag-virtual-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4002"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4011,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002\/revisions\/4011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}