Digital Drive Education: What should the classroom be like in the future?

Just as we are no longer using classical Chinese, perhaps the days of using paper textbooks will never be the same. In the 2014, big figures are reshaping the way students attend classes and learning, and new tools and digital classrooms are changing educators today. "The data is changing the way people think," says Eileen Murphy Buckley, the founder and CEO of ThinkCERCA, which is involved in data-driven education. "Whether it's teacher accountability or the timing of learning, technology and data are playing a subversive role in our education." "It's nothing new to start a computer course in K-12 Elementary School in the United States, and now students are already learning basic language on mobile devices or playing" Oregon ". It can be said that more and more students began to experience data-driven education, and this personalized education method, has been fully integrated into the post-textbook era. How to run a data-driven classroom you will find that today's technology has a huge impact on our daily lives, and algorithms can analyze people's online and offline behavior all day. They can instruct us how to handle the things at hand, and even control what we do next. Many online stores, such as Amazon, often push ideas, advice, and products to you, which are based on data collection, and they will find your historical order data, browsing habits, and other data to draw conclusions through analysis. Education has also entered the data ecosystem. In a data-driven classroom, you can digitally collect and analyze students ' schoolwork, and this approach allows schools to systematically track and report on student performance. Moreover, in each independent class, digital courses and data are changing the way teachers work and educate. Here are a few examples to see how data and education interact. L Scoring and rating: Applications like Bubblescore are handy to use when they come through mobile devices to issue multiple-choice tests and to scan paper papers and rate them through mobile device cameras. A similar tool can output the score to the rating book and customize the parameters to track the related process. For example, if schools need to report to the United States "Common Core State Standards," These tools can be very useful. • Personalized, adaptive learning: The past education methods, like the assembly line, to assign assignments to students, and then to the upper grade, and the data obtained in the classroom more attention to students learning experience. The digital curriculum developed by Knewton has benefited from large data, and they can conduct predictive analysis, accurately understand what the students have learned and which course plans are best suited for them. Problem management: Problems in the classroom have become more and more, such as students to let others write their homework, and so on. And the data can help teachers to solve the classProblems. There is a company called Iparadigms, which uses large data to analyze public databases and other online resources to see which students are handing in their homework and which students have done it themselves. However, all of these features also require a key element to support that is the teacher. Teachers still play a key role in the transformation of digital subjects. Human factors: teachers and data as the classroom education and data links more and more, the potential is more and more, the teacher's importance to the student experience is particularly obvious. Companies that want to integrate digital into classrooms also find the problem, and they are starting to focus on the "head of the class"------teachers. For example, ThinkCERCA's software has a core component that provides analytical functionality when it knows that students are writing papers efficiently. The cornerstone of the THINKCERCA algorithm, in fact, is to rely on evaluating students ' assignments and teachers interacting with students. "What I want to say is that we can really give the teacher some data," Buckley said, "it captures some of the student's behavior and then pushes the feedback to the teacher." Like the fitness app and the gourmet app, the user enters what he eats and, after a period of statistical analysis, pushes the health results of the analysis to them. So that users can better and more meaningful understanding of their behavior. "To quantify student behavior around teaching, Thinkcreca's analytic function can help schools and educators to tell them what's going on in the classroom and how to solve them." For educators, this can be said to be the best way to drive a digital classroom. "Using large data can completely subvert standardized educational models and provide teachers and students with creative and problem-solving education," said Justin Lyon, a high school math teacher and founder of Critical, "big data can give students and teachers greater latitude, Help them to do really important work. ”