Political education should adapt to the requirement of large data age

Large data is a collection of data that is far beyond the capacity of traditional database software, which is used to describe and define the massive data produced in the era of information explosion, and to name the related technology development and innovation. With the 2013 known as the "Year of large data," a big data era full of competition and challenges officially opened, human society is undergoing a profound change. The ideological and political education of our army only adapts to the demands of the times, grasps the opportunity and meets the challenge, can keep vigorous vitality and strong vitality.

Set up a large data consciousness. The advent of the large data age has made it possible for the first time for mankind to acquire and use complete data, to explore the laws of the real world, and to acquire knowledge that was impossible to acquire in the past. Large data is not only a kind of technology, but also a kind of value and methodology, it brings a great change of thinking. Educators should judge the changes that large data brings to the ideological and political education of the army, this paper analyzes the mechanism of its action, keeps abreast of the development and change of the Times, has the idea of system thinking based on the whole plan, the related thinking based on the inner connection, the precise thinking based on the data support, and the forward thinking based on the pre design of each link of education. To fully realize that data is a valuable resource of education, it attaches great importance to the collection, storage and processing of information in ideological and political education, which lays a solid foundation for the development of education.

Mining large data resources. With the development of information technology and Internet, our young soldiers have less attention to traditional media and more dependence on new media such as Internet. The massive data produced by officers and soldiers on the net record their thought, behavior and even emotion, which contains rich connotations and many regularity information. Large data provides a seamless way of presenting and exploiting information for ideological and political education, on the basis of comprehensively collecting information and making it into effective information by processing and synthesizing information, the author makes analysis, judgment, filtration and purification to make it become valuable information, and then reach a comprehensive understanding and accurate grasp of educational object. Through the establishment of "military feeling large database", we can collect officers and soldiers thought dynamic, use the long time data research to realize "quantity" accumulation, analyze and judge the data to realize the leap of "quality", provide the real and effective data basis for enhancing educational pertinence.

Using large data methods. With the support of large data, many new research tools and methods can be applied to military ideological and political education. The ideological and political education in the era of large data, more to let "data talk". Using large data technology to provide data support and problem solving for complex mathematical models, education is carried out in combination of quantitative research and qualitative research, so that the quantitative research method becomes a new tool for ideological and political education. At the same time, to realize the combination of group analysis and individualized customization, to improve the coverage and pertinence of education. At the macroscopic level, we use large data to reveal the ideological characteristics of the group, grasp the behavior rules of the group, and analyze the relationship between group thought and various events. At the microcosmic level, the state of individual thought and behavior is clearly revealed with large data, and the "private customization" of ideological and political education and the prediction of the future state of mind are realized.

Grasp the large data environment. Large data age, the dissemination of information, transmission becomes more convenient and fast, officers and men's learning training, online behavior, communication and other records to generate a lot of data, everyone is the data manufacturer, communicator, share and analysis object. Educators can use the data information of large data platform to find out the ideological roots of soldiers ' activities, family and social relations, and make a more comprehensive and accurate understanding of officers and soldiers. Through the coordination of military barracks, society and family, the whole environment of education system is formed, which makes the officers and soldiers be "combined" education and promote the content of education to be "inward-oriented and outward-oriented". At the same time, it is possible to set up a large data platform of comprehensive information for officers and soldiers to provide all kinds of information about learning, work and life, and to form the atmosphere of "no time and everywhere" in educational information, and improve the effectiveness of ideological and political education in the army. (Lan Jun) (Source: Chinese military net "or" PLA)