Facebook is out to upend the traditional
student-teacher relationship.
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.
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.
“As parents and kids and teachers
get access to this type of learning, I think more and more will want it,” Diane
Tavenner, the co-founder and chief executive of Summit Public Schools, said in
a telephone interview.
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.
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.
But the Summit-Facebook system,
called the “Summit Personalized Learning Platform,” is different.
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. A
student working on a science assignment, for example, may choose to create a
project using video, text or audio files. Students may also work
asynchronously, tackling different sections of the year’s work at the same
time.
The system inverts the traditional
teacher-led classroom hierarchy, requiring schools to provide intensive
one-on-one mentoring and coaching to help each student adapt.
This summer, more than 1,500
educators and leaders of public, private and charter schools participating in
the program, called Summit Basecamp, attended sessions to learn how to use the
system. Among the 19 schools that introduced the new learning approach last
year, at least a few educators and administrators reported a steep learning
curve.
“There were many points where we
weren’t sure the Summit Basecamp model was what our students needed,” said
Claire Fisher, the principal of Urban Promise Academy, a public middle school
in Oakland, Calif., which introduced the platform in its sixth-grade classes.
By the end of the school year,
however, 31 percent of the school’s sixth graders were reading at or above
their grade level, compared with just 9 percent in the fall. That was a larger
improvement in reading than students in seventh and eighth grades, which did
not use the platform, Ms. Fisher said.
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief
executive, and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, were the catalysts for the
partnership. It is the couple’s most public education effort since 2010 when
they provided $100 million to help overhaul public schools in Newark, a
top-down effort that ran into a local opposition.
The Facebook-Summit partnership, by contrast, is more of a
ground-up effort to create a national demand for student-driven learning in
schools. Facebook announced its support for the system last September; the company declined to
comment on how much it is spending on it. Early this month, Summit and Facebook
opened the platform up to individual teachers who have not participated in Summit’s extensive on-site
training program.
Study Questions: Make sure to answer each question in complete sentences in one comment published to the blog.
- Does this article provide conclusive proof that students perform best without the influence of a teacher with structured lesson plans?
- What does this new technology mean for the future of education? Does this lead you to think that the public school classroom will look significantly different in 20 or 30 years? Why or why not?
- What do you think is the intended purpose of this technology? Could this technology be used for another purpose – could it actually be used to reshape public education? How?
- Could this technology be used to replace teachers at some point in the future? Could it change the role of the teacher in the classroom? How? Explain.
- Could this be the solution to the many problems facing public education as discussed in the documentary? Why or why not?
- What appeal(s) is/are being used in this article? Give an example.
29 comments:
1.) yes it does because the teacher from 6th grade used it and the kids read at or higher than their grade level.
2.)I think that schools would be ran by technology and for the teacher he/she would have to do less for their jobs
3.)yes I do think technology does have a purpose other than the purpose we use it for and it also can be used to fix the educational system and the way we look at it.
4.)I think technology could replace teachers but they are still going to be needed at some point just not as much.
5.)yes because the kids would not have to be with a bad teacher and not deal with not learning.
6.)logos because its giving you facts and statistics about what they want to do about education.
1. its provides you with information that 6th graders with the technology is reading at a higher level than 7th and 8th graders
2. yes classrooms will be a lot different if they start using the technology, because it will be easier and better, to get a hang of just because they can go at there own pace
3. the intended purpose of the technology is to see if students will like a computer to help them or a teacher and if it will make students better by working alone and going at there own pace and not having to stress about keeping up, this technology could be used for adults to, like helping them learn hot to fix something at there job or to reteach themselves how to do something. it could be used to change public education but it will cost a lot of money and most schools don't have that much.
4. yes it could replace teachers in the future because its the same every time and it wont get paid unless its broken and it doesn't get tired and it works with you and you only everyday.
5. yes, because no child will be left behind because the computer will help them a 100% of the way, and the computer will never be a bad teacher.
6. it is logos because it tries to reason with you on how technology could help out education and evidence that 6th graders are doing better than 7th and 8th graders.
1. 60 million students worldwide used google apps for education
2. yes because it will be technology over paper
3. yes because it will be batter smarter and a batter way to learn
4. yeah that's what this world is coming to
5. yes it will fix a lot of problems
1.) yes it does because the teacher from 6th grade used it and the kids read at or higher than their grade level.
2.)I think that schools would be ran by technology and for the teacher he/she would have to do less for their jobs
3.)yes I do think technology does have a purpose other than the purpose we use it for and it also can be used to fix the educational system and the way we look at it.
4.)I think technology could replace teachers but they are still going to be needed at some point just not as much.
5.)yes because the kids would not have to be with a bad teacher and not deal with not learning.
6.)logos because its giving you facts and statistics about what they want to do about education.
1. yes, it shows that 6th graders who used it were reading at a higher level than 7th and 8th graders.
2. I believe that the future of education will greatly increase. I also believe that in 20-30 years the classroom will be different and have less use or no use for a teacher due to how the education system changes.
3. the intended purpose was to test how this new system of education works. this technology can and will be used to change the face of the education system and make education all around better for everyone.
4. the teacher wont be fully replaced but they will do a lot less work and teaching they do now. the new education will show and explain things that teachers can an cannot explain.
5. I believe this will solve a lot or most of are education problems in America and help better are future society.
6. logos, ethos, "By the end of the school year, however, 31 percent of the school’s sixth graders were reading at or above their grade level, compared with just 9 percent in the fall
1.) Yes, it dose provide the reading levels for 3,4,and 6th grades with and without the teacher.
2.)This new technology means that the students will be in charge of their own learning and be independent. Yes, I do believe that public schools will look differently in 20-30 years, because they will all have computers and maybe be doing better on the State test.
3.)The intend purpose for this technology is to have everybody working at there own pace. Yes, this technology could be used for something else like homeschool, and maybe in 30 years public schools will not be around.
4.)Yes, I do think this application could replace the teacher and change the role of the teacher in the classroom, because the application has everything you know so why have teachers when we have technology.
5.)Yes, this could be the solution, first off its free, second you can work at your own pace instead of only having 45 min class periods.
6.) I believe the appeal is logos because it is giving us facts and it is using logic.
1. To me it sounds like it did and it said that the 6th graders got to reading at a higher level then what they where I the fall of the year compared to the end of the year with the Facebook program.
2.Yes the classrooms are going to look diffent in 20 to 30 years if there still is any it might just be all done at home with the technology we have now.
3.The Technology is going to be used to reshape the schooling and learning ways because a lot of people are not getting the work that we are doing now.
4.yes the teachers are going to be replaced later on in the years because if you do not need the teachers anymore cause of the technology that we have then we wont need them anymore so we can be saving a lot of money by doing so.
5.No because some people are the kind of people that like to have hands on work and now just something over the computer screen.
6.This story is logos because it its showing the facts of the ways that It is helping students and teachers learn easier and in different ways.
Garza, Angel
1. yes because a teacher tested it on kids and they read at a higher reading level.
2.This new technology means that in the future there will be lessons built off of computers. i do believe that classrooms will look different in 20 or 30 years because there will be computers everywhere and the teacher will have to basically do nothing but sit on their butts all day because the computers does all the grading an answering question just as well as the teacher.
3. i believe the intended purpose of this technology is for people to make more money off the computers and the kids test averages and the robots and all that tech stuff. this technology can be used for another purpose in good ways as iin factories but it wouldn't help people , it would take peoples jobs. it can be used to reshape education by teaching better than the teachers and teaching the kids more than the teachers.
4. i do believe this technology can be used to replace teachers in the future. it can change the role if a teacher from being a teacher to being a helper something like a computer assistant type thing.
5.this can be the solution in some ways but in most ways it wont because someties computers crash an dsometimes things happen to these compueters and who will help the kids when these happen.
1. the article proves that students who used this did better than the students who didn't.
2.this technology means that we are going to use more like that in the future. public school classrooms are going to be much different in 20 years because everyone is going to be using this tool.
3.this technology is intended to help students be in charge of their own learning. This could be used in colleges and work. it can reshape public education with a more immersive tool.
4.this technology can be used to replace teachers and it can also change the role of teachers to just help them instead of teaching
5. this can change many problems facing public education by making it more interesting for students.
6.the appeal is logos because it is giving facts with sources
1: yes, it is to help the students move at there own paste and get a good grade on it.
2: yes, it's saying that it's really good and 1st and 2nd graders are reading at or above there reading level.
3: well it's on Facebook so they can go check there Facebook account, but unless they block that and then yes, I think it could help the schools education. by letting students go at there own past.
4: yes, it could replace teachers if it as good as they say because if the kids are learning really good with it better then with teachers then the government might change it so that's there no teachers and only the technology.
5:maybey, if technology is to fix's the problem then the kids well just play games instead of doing there work. but if it isn't then the world will just have one more or the same amount of problems.
6: logos, because it keeps saying how the technology well help the students and well raise there stores in reading, and math
1.Some teachers teach a grade level above the students that they are in.
2.Nowadays there is better technology so basically it makes teachers jobs easier.
3.Technology can be used in any purpose, it can help the schools system of the way they teach so the modern the better.
4.It can, the world living in technology is capable of replacing how the school teaches.
5.Yes it can, it could now be more interesting and they're can be less lemons.
6.Logos because this article provides evidence and research.
1. Yes, this article provide information that students perform best without the influence of a teacher with structured lesson plans because that 31% of the 6th graders reading at or above there grade level than the 9% in fall, this was a very large improvement in reading than 7-8th graders which don't use the platform .
2. Yes, public school classrooms in 20 to 30 years will look significantly very different if they start to use the technology because it will be so much easier and faster to take notes and for them to do it at their own pace without there hand hurting from all the writing.
3.i think its intended purpose is for them to see if the students like the technology to help them more on keeping up and finishing there work at their own pace, this computers help students work alone without stressing out . this technology can be used not just only for students but for anyone else like a parent teacher etc.
4.Yes, this technology could replace teachers in the future because its basacly the same thing as a teacher and they wont get paid unless its broken and it doesn't get tired and it works with you and you only everyday so you don't have to worry of having to keep asking the teacher for help or that you didn't understand.
5.Yes, because no child will be left behind because the computer will help them when they need it instead of having to ask the teacher over and over again and the computer will never mount faction and if it does you can just take it to get it fixed.
6.It tries to reason with you on how technology can help you out education and evidence that 6th graders are doing better than 7th and 8th grader with no technology .
By: Darely Cantu 4th period
1. This article does not provide conclusive proof that students perform best without the influence of a teacher with structured, detailed lesson plans.
2. This new kind of technology might actually cost a teacher's job, as now their job could be easily replaced by a computer. In 20-30 years, the public school classroom will most likely look different due to constant technological advances.
3. I think the intended to actually help students who work at a slower pace than others, allowing them to work at however fast they want to work, and what they want to work on. I think it can actually help reshape public education by allowing students to work on what section of what they need to learn and at the pace they want, so there is no pressure on turning assignments in on time.
4. This technology could be used to replace teachers some point in the future. Possibly, teachers could work from home and use video-conferencing with their students who need help.
5. This could be a solution to many of the problems that were discussed in the documentary, such as the bad teacher problems, and failing school districts.
6. An appeal being used in this article is Ethos, where the author puts "Google said more than 60 million students and teachers worldwide used google apps for education"
Logan RomanGonzalez
1. This article does provide conclusive proof by using the students reading statistics.(31 percent are better readers than the traditional 9 percent)
2. new technology in the class is a sign that maybe in 20 or 30 years we could "produce" a smarter class settings but it could also make people more lazy.
3. I think the intended purpose is to make a teachers job easier but with downfalls such as a lower paycheck.(more work equals more pay concept)
4. yes I do believe it could replace teachers at a later point due to the fact that it slowly already is. websites like khan academy and other home bound education programs are making teachers less relevant to a child's everyday life.
5. yes it could be the solution to some problems facing public education but it could also add more such as hackers, lac of internet/Wi-Fi, and or an internet outage in a region but could make learning fun and more interesting as well as provide better teachers and students.
6. The appeals used in this article that are in use are mostly statistical.
1.yes it do in the its about how the stuff of Facebook is made and all thing its used for.
2.yes it will look different because people are going to be on there phones more and like now in this school we have to have a computer.
3.yes it could be used I another way and if it was the world would be another problem.
4.yes some the computers will be talking to people and showing them how to do there work and people are going to look up to a computer and then they will brake and the ant do any thing.
5.no people are not going to learn that way and thin they go to get a job and then they cant.
6.soshale media will take over the world and then people wont be abele to do things on thereown.
elijaiah bernard
1:yes because it said that six graders are reading at or above there grade level.
2:yes because the classrooms will be more dependent on the technology so the class rooms will be more advanced.
3:it is for the students to have a second source to lean on and use someday as a primary source if education one day.
4: I believe it could because it works so good the teacher would have nothing to do they could be like computer helper but that's real it.
5:yes it could be because less school hours less lessons more learning.
6:they used ethos example :" 31 percent of the school’s sixth graders were reading at or above their grade level, compared with just 9 percent in the fall ".
1.) Yes, because the would want to pay attention more and make better grades on them.
2.) that everything will increase then now. yes because everyone is going to have there own way to help them.
3.) to help kids improve the learning skills, it could be used for all the subjects that kids have or test.
4.) Yes, because they will need have someone to help them and the technology can grade it.
5.) yes , because no child would be held back from moving on to the grade they are supposed to be.
6. that technology would help more with education for the 6th and 7th grades to improve there learning.
-Trey Auguste
7th
1) This article has conclusive proof that students perform better without the influence of a teacher because , "31 percent of the school’s sixth graders were reading at or above their grade level, compared with just 9 percent in the fall."
2) The new technology might but teachers out of jobs. I do thin the class rooms are going to look different within 20 to 30 years because it would be put in with more computers.
3) I think the reason why some schools have technogy because it saves trees.
4) I think it could replace teachers not only because the kids get higher scores. it can change the teachers role by just making them watch the kids.
5) Yes it can lead to problems because some students like to be tought by the teacher instead of the computer.
6) this article is trying to say that computers help our education more than teachers because then the student cant learn at their own pace
1: yes it proves that the student did better because there reading grade in 6th grade are higher than before, my reading in 6th grade was low/moderate than high.
2: it means, in the future the children/ people in collage will have to be dependable in there own education instead of the teachers. I think it will be a bit differently.
3: it teaches the children to be responsible for there education, whether they will get a good education or don't
4: it could replace teachers from schools but for people in bad neighborhoods, what if they can't get, then they could use the teachers for them.
5: yes because of children and bad education
6: Ethos; 31 percent of the school’s sixth graders were reading at or above their grade level
1. Yes because it says and the article the percent of kids in the 6th grade were reading at or above their grade level.
2. Yes in 20 or 30 years it will look different because we would just sit down in a room and hop on Facebook.
3.The intended purpose is to let kids work as fast as they want to or as slow as they want to because some kids may get it some may not so it takes time and when there working at there on pace they wont feel rushed or just give up.
4.Yes it will change the role because a teacher is somebody who teachers but in this case all there really going to do is sit in a desk all day so what would be the point of teachers anymore ??????
5.Yes many problems as like getting distracted not listening to the teacher but with this technology everybody would keep to there self's which pretty much solves a lot of problems.
6.The appeal this article is using is logos because this article has evidence and reasoning.
Jessilin Lopez
1. Yes In the story it says 31% of the schools sixth graders were reading at or above their grade level... . That was a larger improvement. It shows it help the students more than teachers.
2. No because if it did some students would slack off and not do the work . With a teacher he or she can keep students on task.
3. It can help people in jail get a education.
4. No computers can't keep students on task like teachers.
5. Yes it can give extra help to people that need more help than others.
6. Logos because it gives you facts to trust them. By : Angel Ceballos
1. I say yes because the 6th grade teacher said they read above their grade level and perform better than 7th and 8th.
2. I think it means that students will become more dumb and in 20-30 years that it would look different because of social media and to get answers they will have to use technology without learning.
3. I think it is intended to make stuff easier and it could be used to make education fun and better to learn. I think it would make a lot of kids love school.
4.It might because instead of teacher there could be robots and if not, teachers could just instruct students to do something while they use the technology to educate them.
5. It might because it might make education fun to learn and students might actually learn good but if they trust technology a lot, there could sometimes be errors and it also depends on what type of technology they are using.
6. Logos because it has evidence showing that some kids are higher in their education when the teacher has no structured plans.
1. The article stated that "kids get the report of all assignments for all year and so they start tackling things" and that "it takes less time for teachers to intense one on one with students" the students work on these things at their own pace and Urban Promise Academy's sixth graders have actually did this and their reading grades went up by 31% which is 9% better then seventh and eighth graders levels. so yes it does provide proof students work better without the influence of a teacher structured lesson plan.
2. I personally believe this will change education for the future because instead of teachers being "everywhere at once" they can just be a Skype call away. The classrooms will probably be just filled with computers.
3. A lot of students are failing because they always have a "due date" which an assignment has to be turned in by then or its considered late and most for students to do the work and have 15 or even 20 points deducted makes them lose interest in the assignment even quicker because most students are slowler then others, with this being said kids working online at their own pace is going to sound great to many this technology may even replace schools and techers.
4. This technology may replace teachers in school and I say this because students are going to want to work at the own pace and what will teachers have to do then? sit around? the roles of teachers will defiantly be changed the teachers may longer be in schools maybe at home because the kids will only need them when help is needed and they can Skype them.
5. This technology could be the solutions to many problems due to many kids not being able to finish in the 6 weeks they have every semester, I feel as if grades will be going up and many kids graduating erly also students being able to Skype their teacher at any time will be a great problem solved many times the teachers don't have enough time to answer everyone questions and be around to help each and every student at once so being individual would help kids learn a lot easier.
6. Logos
they use big cooperations to pull the audience in.
"giants like Google and Microsoft have already established big foot prints in education."
"amazon also plans to introduce Amazon inspire"
1. Yes, because a 6th graders were reading above there grade level.
2. I belive that in 20 or 30 years school will be much different due to the fact back when I was in elementary we were just starting to use computers, and now we use them almost everyday in the classroom. So technology will play a big part of our education system later on.
3. I think the purpose of the technology is to get more one on one with every student, and to make sure that everyone is getting the same level of education, I also think this might change the way our test scores will be.
4. Yes I believe it could because every student could have there own personal teacher.
5. Yes it could help out with our test scores and we wouldn't have as many drop outs as we do.
1.the younger class 6th graders were reading above their level
2.it will probably effect the students not helping them to be smarter
3.it will help them get smarter and advanced on certain subject's
4.it probably will it all depends on the program if it gets more advanced
5.yes it can help them a little more making stuff easier
6.logos because it gives you facts to trust them
1.Its sounds that 6th graders will have a higher level reading than others.
2.In 20-30 years it would look different because students will just be sitting down working with the technology.
3.The intended is to make sure that students are getting the same education level.
4.Yes, because they will have a better grade.
5.Yes, because students will have better education.
6.Logos because its giving us facts.
1. yes because the 6th grade teacher said they read above their grade level and perform better than 7th and 8th.
2. this technology means that we are going to use more like that in the future. public school classrooms are going to be much different in 20 years because everyone is going to be using this tool
3. yes I do think technology does have a purpose other than the purpose we use it for and it also can be used to fix the educational system and the way we look at it.
4.I think technology could replace teachers but they are still going to be needed at some point just not as much.
5.yes it could be because less school hours less lessons more learning
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