{"id":211,"date":"2026-09-10T14:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T14:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/?p=211"},"modified":"2026-09-10T16:54:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T16:54:20","slug":"time-is-precious-and-limited-application-bloat-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/2026\/09\/10\/time-is-precious-and-limited-application-bloat-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Time is Precious, and Limited: Application Bloat Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our work developing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sedso.io\">Fast Lane Literacy<\/a> &#8211; the On-Ramp to Reading &#8211; emphasizes making the most of the limited time available and avoiding waste.<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sedso.io\/enews\/26\/09\/10\/fast-lane-literacy-story-time-complexity-chromebook.svg\" width=\"99%\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/09\/10\/nyregion\/who-will-enforce-the-new-ai-rules-probably-teachers.html\"><u>James Barron reported<\/u><\/a> recently that <strong>New York City elementary and middle schools have 38 tools with &#8220;ai components&#8221;<\/strong>.   38 digital products to purchase, learn, maintain, leverage and share (effectively) with students.  Season with network access, updates, training and hardware issues.   <\/p>\n<p>A recent Madison School District presentation mentioned &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.schoolinfosystem.org\/2026\/06\/08\/most-staff-per-student-in-wisconsin-history-1-adult-per-7-0-kidsmadison-3-52-student\/\"><u>application bloat<\/u><\/a>&#8221; along with the current 1:1 device policy for K-2 students.<\/p>\n<p>And: NYC and LA are restricting student AI. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/datarepublican\/status\/2097873144644239493?s=46\">We used it to expose<\/a> what school missed\u2014and repair two years of gaps in six weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our work developing Fast Lane Literacy &#8211; the On-Ramp to Reading &#8211; emphasizes making the most of the limited time available and avoiding waste. James Barron reported recently that New York City elementary and middle schools have 38 tools with &#8220;ai components&#8221;.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228,"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions\/228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}