The Hechinger Report- Nichole Dobo
“If an education technology solution is to have any chance of success, it must first be embraced by teachers, students and parents. A logical way to achieve this is to allow educators to take the lead on the development of high-tech tools. That’s what happened at Summit Public Schools, a California-based charter network, where teachers created a prototype of a new tool that would enable them to customize each school day for each student. Then, to strengthen the software and make it more effective, Summit invited in a team of developers from Facebook. Once the enhanced software had been used for a year, the Summit leaders and Facebook agreed to try a larger pilot, with the goal of developing a program any school or teacher could use.”(more)