<div dir="ltr"><div>NY Times Excerpts:<br></div><div><br><div style="margin-left:40px">Facebook is out to upend the traditional student-teacher relationship.<br><br>On Tuesday, Facebook and Summit Public Schools, a nonprofit charter school network with headquarters in Silicon Valley, announced that nearly 120 schools planned this fall to introduce a free student-directed learning system developed jointly by the social network and the charter schools.<br><br>Rather than have teachers hand out class assignments, the Facebook-Summit learning management system puts students in charge of selecting their projects and setting their pace. The idea is to encourage students to develop skills, like resourcefulness and time management, that might help them succeed in college...<br><br>The Facebook-backed platform is entering the public school software market when rival tech giants like Google and Microsoft have already established big footprints in education, in an attempt to build brand loyalty among students early.<br><br>In June, Google said more than 60 million students and teachers worldwide used Google Apps for Education, a suite of free products that includes Gmail and Google Drive for document-sharing. Many other schools use Microsoft productivity tools and Skype, the videoconferencing tool, in classrooms. Amazon also plans to soon introduce Amazon Inspire, a site where teachers can share free instructional materials.<br><br>The software gives students a full view of their academic responsibilities for the year in each class and breaks them down into customizable lesson modules they can tackle at their own pace...<br></div><br>Screenshot:<br><br><div style="margin-left:40px"><a href="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/08/09/business/10FACEBOOK2/10FACEBOOK2-superJumbo.jpg">https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/08/09/business/10FACEBOOK2/10FACEBOOK2-superJumbo.jpg</a><br></div></div><div><br></div><div>More detail:<br></div><div><br><div style="margin-left:40px"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/10/technology/facebook-helps-develop-software-that-puts-students-in-charge-of-their-lesson-plans.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/10/technology/facebook-helps-develop-software-that-puts-students-in-charge-of-their-lesson-plans.html</a><br><a href="https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2016/08/11/facebook-partnership-develops-software-students-curate-educations/">https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2016/08/11/facebook-partnership-develops-software-students-curate-educations/</a><br><a href="https://www.summitlearning.org">https://www.summitlearning.org</a><br></div></div></div>