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Stephen Downes

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This could be any newspaper anywhere really. It could be snow, heat, torrential rain, whatever. "While most students in Edgecombe County were missing school during the recent January snow days, students at G.W. Bulluck Elementary School had the option to continue." You've seen the headline before, and eventually, you'll stop seeing the headline as it becomes common practice. Then, as it becomes common practice, administrators will be much less hesitant to declare snow days. At a certain point, shorter work weeks (made possible due to automation and a long-overdue sharing of productivity gains with workers) will converge with e-learning days. The future takes time to arrive, but one day, we'll wake up and discover that, like camera-phones, suddently it's here. Image: GW Bulluck Elementary

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