Can big data improve school education? See how big data from abroad can land in the education industry

At the beginning of learning to swim, the teachers will let the children hold the Floating Board (Kickboard) to practice the basic skills of swimming. As an auxiliary tool, floating board is widely used in swimming teaching. Small series This introduction of the company is named Kickboard, this educational technology tool is also to assist teaching, but it is not just a floating board. Kickboard is a school data analysis platform that enables teachers and leaders in schools to better master, analyze, and share data on student performance in order to improve teaching, management and communication with parents. The founder says Kickboard is the teacher's floating board, helping them to travel better in the ocean of student data. In recent years, large data in the field of education has become a hot spot, but how is it true from student data to improve school education, but also worthy of our inquiry.

Come and meet Kickboard

Jennifer Medbery founded the Kickboard in 2009. When she was teaching at school, she found that she and her colleagues spent a lot of time using forms to record students ' information, which was very inefficient. As a University of Columbia computer Science graduate, Jennifer began to design how to more easily collect and analyze the information that students learn and grow, also born Kickboard.

Kickboard provides a data analysis platform for school teachers and leaders, the platform is able to track, analyze and share students ' performance data, including learning performance, such as small tests, test scores, and behavioral performance, such as classroom performance, job completion, and even character development data. It can help teachers to better understand students, improve their teaching programs. And teachers can share this data with other teachers, making teaching more consistent. Parents can also log on to the platform to have a comprehensive and clear understanding of students ' performance in school.

Kickboard in the form of charts so that teachers can be more intuitive to see the performance of each student in all aspects, not only to promote the development of students, but also to improve teaching methods. This platform is based on data to help schools better understand students and teachers, improve classroom management and student development. "Our goal is to improve the culture of the school, and the use of data is part of this broad cultural concept," said founder Jennifer Medberry.

Ii. School culture using data

Kickboard is how to build a school culture that uses data? Mainly in the following three areas

1. School for data improvement

Research shows that data is critical to improving schools in general. The Kickboard provides a platform for data collection, analysis and sharing to help build a more transparent school atmosphere, improve student performance and increase parental involvement. and Kickboard on the basis of providing a platform, but also provide personalized guidance services, together with educators first through the data to find the right problem, and then formulate a reasonable school improvement plan, by incorporating data analysis into the school's existing system to establish a high-quality school culture. For teachers, through the data can be more comprehensive understanding of students, so as to improve their teaching, for the headmaster, can be more targeted to train teachers,

and to make teaching more systematic throughout the school, and for parents to be able to get regular and detailed reports into their children's education process.

2. Data Management Classroom

More than 30 years of research have shown that classroom management has the greatest impact on student performance. Through the Kickboard data platform, teachers can set learning goals and behavioral guidelines to manage the classroom, and data analysis can find the best way to manage the classroom. In addition, Kickboard utilizes large data to enable teachers to collect, analyze, and share student information on a single control platform, reducing the conversion between various documents and databases. The student data gives teachers a fuller understanding of students and makes them more interesting and appealing based on their current level and hobbies. In addition to the weak subjects and growth space for individual students to conduct data analysis, Kickboard also provides a set of tools to help students understand the school and class culture, not only improve the level of classroom management, but also conducive to the future development of students.

3. Data Adjustment Teaching

Kickboard's design is teacher-centric, and the color dashboard makes student data very easy to understand. Real-time and comprehensive data allows teachers to adjust their teaching programs to help students improve their learning and behavioral performance. Teachers will soon be able to understand the strengths and weaknesses of the students and know what knowledge they need to further explain them. The school's leadership can also be based on data reports to understand the teacher's teaching, know the strengths and weaknesses of teachers, targeted to arrange teacher training.

Iii. the potential of education for large data

We have seen the potential of data in education, but we still have a lot of questions to ask about the big data on education. First of all, what data should we collect? or what is good data? What kind of data do we know about a student? And now we are in a comprehensive and effective game of data collection.

And who should have the data? Who should analyze the data? We talked about teachers, principals and parents, but they didn't mention the students themselves. Greg Klein, the mixed-learning director of the Rogge fund, points out that not only teachers, principals, parents, but also the students themselves need to know their data. "Children should have and know their own data, just as they know their home address and the lyrics of a song," he said. Students should know how to get their data, set goals, create the right way to learn, and learn about their progress. ”

Perhaps we can foresee an educational data platform in which teachers, parents, and children collectively record, analyze, and share information, not only in learning, but also in character development, learning habits, hobbies, and children's goals and ideals.