The challenge of large data to education

"In the Information technology revolution today, discipline and indoctrination in retreat, support and service are advancing." As the creatures of the universe, human beings have the ability of logical inference and self-organization, which need to be discovered. The educational revolution that is taking place is not to move the traditional classrooms online, but to let the new technology liberate people's ability to learn and talent. ”

The Indian educational scientist, Tes Mitra, is a landmark figure. In the 1999, he went to many remote villages in India, where people neither knew English nor saw computers. Sugat a computer screen connected to the Internet on a wall of children's often-gathered streets, with a mouse and then out of there. A few months later, the experiment showed that the children were self-taught and learned to use the computer. In the next more than 10 years, Sugat in India, South Africa, Cambodia, the United Kingdom, Italy and other place also carried out a similar biology, mathematics, language and other content of educational experiments. It turns out that without the need for teachers or scientists to enter into the logic and procedures, learners can independently complete the study, which is "self-organization learning." Therefore, Sugat that education is a self-organizing behavior.

Learning is a self-organizing act, then the role of teachers and teaching institutions should be repositioned. With the popularization of Internet and the further opening of network resources, online education can not merely move the traditional classroom to the Internet, which may be more contrary to the rule of learning. Based on the relevant historical research, the New Media Education Alliance has summed up many human learning behaviors: social learning, visual learning, mobile learning, game learning, teaching and learning, each learning way, in the information and knowledge carrier, basically have the corresponding technical basis. In other words, technology can both expand the way people learn and may limit the way they learn. Once new technologies emerge, these new technologies will change the way information and knowledge are transmitted, and the ways in which humans learn will change accordingly. In the Internet age, open society and resources will further liberate people's learning, more and more people do not have to stay in school passively accept the study, they will be self-organizing learning to play incisively and vividly.

In America's new online education boom, college professors with lots of fans can easily get tens of millions of of dollars in venture capital. This is a huge challenge for the traditional university, it is in this context, the nerve that has driven the university reform: do not conform to the trend, then the campus will not be the most outstanding teacher's gathering place. However, in order to really get new life, education is not only in the online education, but in the change of the traditional education idea: the function of the teacher should be to the low-level and the copied to the big input film model to do. In the future, teachers will become coaches, teachers and students will go to the training field, how to change from the traditional basketball court, to become a lighting illusion with new technology armed with the "home."

In the information technology revolution today, discipline and indoctrination are in retreat, support and service in advance. The essence of education is the support and service to learners, not the discipline and enlightenment of them. As the creatures of the universe, human beings have the ability of logical inference and self-organization. The ability to explore this logic and self-organization is the right path. The educational revolution that is taking place is not to move the traditional classrooms online, but to let the new technology liberate people's ability to learn and talent. Students are liberated and human capital grows exponentially.

In the reform of education, the most serious problem is not the lack of educational resources, but the teachers who have no talent are still "working hard" in the wrong direction. "This is a time of great change for educators," Sugat said. I have witnessed the shuffling of the forces of education. Perhaps we say the ' educational revolution ' is exaggerated, but changes are indeed changing. The pluralistic coexistence of teaching model is a long-standing phenomenon. But there is no doubt that the new technology has increased its competitors to teachers from the periphery. The application of new technology leads to the change of students ' psychological anticipation and learning habits, which promotes the transformation of teaching process from the core and the inside. Students have changed, not as good as before. This is not a bad thing, in the midst of this, I do not know how many opportunities and possibilities lurk waiting for someone to find out!

Sugat has a very representative view: "Can you imagine and confirm that what you are teaching and assessing is going to work for the next 20 years?" To this end, Sugat analysis, in the next big Data era, only three kinds of basic things are students to get and must learn things: first, reading, the second is the search, the third is to distinguish the authenticity. When it comes to mathematics, Sugat says, "Maybe math will become a sport." "Basic ability plus each child's special" sports ", constitutes the future education in the mind of Sugat, this kind of sports may be mathematics, leadership, music, art, basketball ... Mathematics may be a sport for every child, maybe a part of a professional athlete, but the mathematics of the big Data age will not be the basic standard and point of education.

In today's information age, the future education in the Internet and other technologies become more and more personalized, the application of large data technology will be conducive to personalized education, standardized learning content by the students from the organization of learning, schools and teachers are more concerned about the individual cultivation of students, teachers from the teaching to gradually change into a student. In the coming large data age, the Internet education and school education will gradually separate, more interaction, personalized service and flexible academic system will make the school a new life.