"The father of Big data" talk about future schools: Students who are afraid of being smart are labeled

The author of the world's first big Data book, the great Data age, was hailed as "the prophet of the Big Data Age", and Viktomeirschenberg, a professor at Oxford University, who is the father of big data, was invited to visit East "Viktor Mayer-sch Nberger" November 20. Cultural forum, in ECNU, North Campus, Shaw House Report Hall "with the Big data peer: the Future of learning and education", with ECNU teachers and students and the community talk about the relationship between large data and learning and education, and how large data will profoundly affect the future of learning and education.

This year, Schoenberg and Couqueil, as bestselling authors, have again collaborated on the publication of the book "The Future of learning and education" with large data (Learning with big data:the Future of Education), The Chinese version is being translated by Professor Zhang Jianjian of the ECNU Institute of Curriculum and Teaching and is about to be released.

Educational achievements in the age of large data

As a prophet of large data and a professor, Schoenberg deeply felt the profound impact of large data on education, and Schoenberg described the blueprint for future schools in his mind when he received an impassioned news interview and talked about his future school: "Future schools will not be fully online schools, Must be wired to the physical space, but the function of the school is different, it is no longer to accept the content of the space, students can be at home through interactive teaching programs to accept content, schools become social places, people in the future school to discuss the existence of all the doubts and difficulties in learning, to share the joy and enjoyment of learning. ”

Schoenberg through Mooc, the Khan Academy, a number of neighboring language learning sites and other cases, points out that the booming online education has produced big data that makes education more than just "You tell Me", test scores or elective subjects, "Big data helps us to judge what works and what doesn't." To show the learning dimension that was not previously possible, and to achieve the "private order" of education based on the needs of students.

At the same time, large data can help teachers to determine the most effective teaching methods, thereby improving the efficiency and interest in work. School administrators and policymakers can also provide more educational opportunities at lower cost, thereby reducing social income disparities and social disparities.

"For the first time, we have a powerful empirical tool that allows us to understand how to teach, and understand how to learn", Schoenberg that the big data gives us a more comprehensive and nuanced view of the complexity of the world and the place where we are, it changes not only learning methods, but also the way we think about the world. When we learn this new way of understanding the world, we will be able to better understand the world and make a different way for our own development.

The persistence of online education is not strong, "the high dropout rate" is a bottleneck for online education, and in the face of such questions, Schoenberg says, dropout rates are an old concept that should now be cut across class hours, "We don't have to complete this course to be successful, but to see how much knowledge is disseminated, Online education is a remarkable achievement in this regard. ”

Worries about the big data age

"Use large data to freely choose future degrees of freedom, helping us get what we want, and then maximizing our learning, instead of using data to classify us, dividing us into different groups, or labeling us as losers or poor students, could lock us into a future that never escapes. "Schoenberg also has no denying that big data is a major challenge.

He was particularly concerned about the misuse of large data in inappropriate places, large data can be used to improve learning, not to keep track of what has been done, and "Perhaps the mistakes you make in your learning process are permanently recorded through the system of large data, and learning itself is a continuous process of trial and experimentation, So we have to make sure that the mistakes you make are not going to follow you through the rest of your life, and if that's the case, it's too bad, and the big numbers lock you in the past, which we don't want to see. ”

Schoenberg also worried that big data would be artificially labeled, "when we use the tool of large data, some may be using large data to find the real bright students, but the less intelligent students eliminated, in fact, for every teacher is more challenging to face the uneven students, It is challenging to help such students tap into their potential to help motivate students who are not motivated to learn. ”

Big data changes not only our lives, our jobs and our ideas, but also the way we learn and educate our students. "The big data is quietly affecting every aspect of the education system and will have a very far-reaching impact on learning and educational activities around the world," Schoenberg said. Big data can tell us what is most efficient and uncover puzzles that have never been discovered in the past. ”

(Responsible editor: Mengyishan)