Gates attends SXSW conference Lecture: Future of Education in data

Bill Gates attended the SXSW Congress education branch Beijing time March 9 News, according to foreign media reports, Microsoft founder Bill Gates recently attended the SXSW Interactive Congress held in Austin, Texas, said the past more than 10 years of education in the field of technological development has stalled, Investment in research and development is far from enough. He believes that the key to the future development of educational technology will be data. Gates attended the SXSW Education Branch (sxswedu) in his capacity as Co-Chair of the Bill and Melinda Gate Foundation. In his speech to the 2,500-member audience, he talked about the relationship between education and technology. In his speech, Gates rarely spoke about the work of the Gates Foundation in American education, but rather on his macro view of education and technology, how technology had been applied to education in the past, why the trend had stalled, and the need for further integration of education and technology in the future. "I think this is a special time for the development of science and technology in education," he began. But his words soon became cautious, perhaps because he remembered the setbacks of some of the early Gates Foundation's reforms in the United States, such as the Gates Foundation's move to build a small high school inside the middle school, but the plan was not progressing well, "we must admit that the reforms are complex, We can't be too naïve. "On the cost of education and technology. Gates said that "storing 1 hours of video on the Internet may cost hundreds of of dollars" during the last wave of educational technology development and investment in the 1990, and that the cost of technology has changed today, with the same video-storage costs now only a few cents, he said. But while most of the cost of education technology is falling, "Internet access is still the most expensive part of it"-even higher than the cost of hardware used by students. That must change, Gates said, because Internet access is not only important in classrooms but also important to continue learning after going home. In the investment of education technology. Although some analysts worry that in recent years investors and tech-media concerns about educational technology and start-ups have been overheating, Gates argues that the question should be whether investment in education is commensurate with its importance: "I think it's totally disproportionate." Instead, he argues, research and development in the field of education is far from adequate in comparison to other important areas. "For American society, investment in education should be much bigger than it is today," he said. "In the start-up business. "We need a lot of adventurous people in the field of education and technology, which is why I'm happy to be here today," Gates said. Unlike many other educational exhibitions, participants in the Sxswedu Congress have brought together educators, industry suppliers, investors, technicians and start-ups, without qualifying for just one industry or group of people. "In this field, we can either improve the quality of education," he said at the end of his speech, "or we'll just walk away, just like we have in the last few decades." ”Gates ' speech as the end of the SXSW education conference is more appropriate. In the conference, some 5,000 participants discussed both the prospects for educational data applications and the concerns about the misuse of educational data. The data itself is not good or bad. It is only a tool to help educators make better decisions, but it can also be a tool for educators to evade thinking and rely on decision-making. But in any case, the importance of data in today's educational science and technology is self-evident, and the key point is how educators use this information.