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Category: Commentary
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Sunset: Yacapaca will cease service at the end of August 2023, after a 20-year run. I want to briefly explain why, what users need to do about it, and what’s coming to replace it. Why shut down? Over the last few years, Google and Microsoft have come to dominate educational technology, squeezing out the independent…
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How much difference does two years of education really make? Not to specific taught subjects, but to a child’s overall preparedness for the world? To find out, I analysed the global results from our 2020 Topical Christmas Quiz. I looked at the average result per year group for each of the Gap Analysis categories. Here’s…
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The A-level results came out on August 13th. In the absence of exams, they were estimated from several data sources using a fairly intelligent algorithm. Results were well up on last year, yet there were such howls of anguish that the government was forced into a humiliating policy U-turn four days later. What on earth…
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The UK infection rate is already (Aug 2020) going up, and there is a significant risk it will explode into a savage second spike if we force 10 million school-age children into becoming active cross-infection vectors. So I think it’s time to write a Plan B, whether Boris wants one or not.
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Five years ago, everyone was going mobile. Tech blogs were full of advice to adopt a ‘mobile first’ development strategy. In education, the debate raged between the purist all-iPad camp and the libertarian BYOD brigade. So who won? Neither. At Yacapaca, we have a unique perspective. Millions of users, years of history. Rather than rush…
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