Ed Surge – Betsy Corcoran and Christina Quattrocchi
“Facebook is going to school. Not as in the “Facebook” page that just about everyone on the planet “likes.” Instead the company has created a tight partnership with California-based charter network, Summit Public Schools, to build a software platform that both educators and entrepreneurs hope will help students plunge deeply into meaningful learning. The collaboration, which started in early 2014, veers away from the traditional intensive fact-packed style of learning to emphasize a student-centered, exploratory learning model. Technology comes into play in two ways: It gives students more command over the pace and direction of their own learning, putting the resources they need at their fingertips when they need it. And technology tightens communications between teachers and students, enabling the teachers to act more like “coaches” and less like lecturers, even as they keep an eye on whether students are working their way through academic standards.”(more)