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㈠ Smart education is still looking for the optimal solution for the integration of technology and education

Introduction

"What will happen when technology and education are combined Such educational products are particularly worth exploring, such as the combination of artificial intelligence and education, and the combination of big data and education." New Oriental founder Yu Minhong put forward his vision for the future education model in the interview program "Thirteen Invitations" : Apply artificial intelligence, blockchain and other technologies to education to change the school’s organizational model, teachers’ teaching model, and students’ learning model.

What Yu Minhong expects is to integrate technology into education to change the face of traditional education and even bring about disruptive changes. This is essentially the goal of smart education. Smart education represents the future direction of education reform. On this track, traditional technology companies and education industry leaders have been working hard for several years, and Internet companies have also entered the field. Now that the "double reduction" policy has been implemented, K12 business is subject to strong supervision and restrictions. Many institutions and companies affected by the policy are seeking transformation, and the smart education track has also attracted industry attention.

01 Smart education starts from the point where everything can be made smart

There are various definitions of the concept of smart education. Some people equate it with educational informatization, while others equate it with the informatization of education. It is divided into a branch of educational informatization. Judging from the time when the concept emerged, educational informatization has continued to appear in government education plans since the reform and opening up, while the concept of smart education did not appear until 2008.

In 2008, then IBM CEO Palmisano proposed the concept of Smart Planet in his report "Smart Planet: The Next Generation Leadership Agenda". He believed that with the help of a new generation of information technology (such as sensing technology, Internet of Things technology, mobile technology, etc.), "almost everything on the earth - any physical object, process or system - can be perceived, interconnected and intelligent. Subsequently, Smart This prefix is ​​combined with different industries, so there are smart cities, smart medical care, smart transportation... In the field of education, there is the concept of smart education.

Smart education is through modern technology in the field of education. There is a combination of technology and traditional education models, relying on new generation information technologies such as the Internet of Things, cloud computing, and wireless communications to build a technology-integrated intelligent education environment and create educational information that is connected, intelligent, perceptual, and ubiquitous. Ecosystem. Allow teachers to use efficient teaching methods, so that learners can obtain appropriate personalized learning services and diversified development needs.

Smart education runs through the entire process of teaching and learning, and ultimately affects Learners, allowing learners to obtain personalized chemistry that matches themselvesLearning service.

Some people have summarized the core problems of current education into three points. One is students’ learning efficiency, homework burden and the resulting problems such as sleep and myopia rate. The other is teachers’ complicated teaching tasks. It is difficult to achieve differentiated and personalized teaching in accordance with aptitude; third, at the macro level, educational resources are unevenly distributed, and the resulting gap in education levels in different regions. Smart education is the product of the combination of modern technology and traditional education, but it is more than just a combination. It promotes the solution of various problems in the field of real education by introducing technology into education.

There is a good example of how to solve educational problems through the combination of technology and education: In December 2018, China Youth Daily published a report titled "This screen may change your destiny" , which mentioned that high schools in poor areas synchronized the teaching classes of the top high school Chengdu No. 7 Middle School through large-screen live broadcast, allowing high schools in poor areas to share the city's teaching resources, thus changing the fate of some students in high schools in poor areas. While the public is paying attention to the imbalance of educational resources mentioned in the report, they have also noticed that live broadcast teaching technology, which has a low technical threshold, can still play a great role in promoting educational equity when used properly.

Smart education is more than just "sharing". Smart education is a new form of education supported by a high degree of informatization because it introduces more advanced concepts and technologies such as the Internet of Things, big data, and artificial intelligence. , can cover more practical issues about education, and is therefore given more imagination and possibilities about education. In 2012, the Ministry of Education proposed a new round of education informatization development plan. Since then, "smart education" has become the focus of modern education construction.

02 Policy support, enterprises enter the market

Before the concept of “smart education” was proposed, it was more commonly known as “education informatization”. In different historical stages, "education informatization" has different appearances and focuses. The development forms and directions of educational informatization at different stages are related to the level of technological development at the same time.

After the reform and opening up, Deng Xiaoping proposed the development of modern education at the National Education Work Conference. Limited by the technology at the time, the imagination of modern education was limited to the use of radio, television and other media; at the beginning of the 20th century, in the era of educational informatization 1.0, based on the educational informatization foundations such as the "School-to-School Connect" project and the "Agricultural Remote Project" Mainly facility construction projects; after 2010, educational informatization construction achieved initial results and received more and more attention in educational reform, gradually shifting from construction to technology integration and application.

At the same time, with the development of AI artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, cloud computing, big data, blockchain and other technologies, in order to adapt to the intelligent environmentIn 2018, the Ministry of Education issued the "Education Informatization 2.0 Action Plan", which mentioned accelerating the construction of online smart classrooms, smart laboratories, virtual factories (hospitals) and other smart learning spaces, and promoting the deep integration of information technology and smart technology into the entire process of education and teaching. . Smart education has become the mainstream direction of education informatization.

Subsequently, the Ministry of Education released "China Education Modernization 2035". Under the guidance of a series of official policies, a large number of technology companies saw opportunities and entered the smart education track. Some companies chose C-side smart education. Hardware research and development provides learners with an intelligent learning environment; some companies choose to provide smart education-related teaching software and hardware to schools and institutions to improve teaching quality; some companies choose to cooperate with governments and schools to explore and develop smart education solutions Practice and create intelligent scenarios.

In recent years, the market scale of my country's smart education industry has continued to expand, and the market prospects of the smart education industry are very broad. Data from the "Research Report on Market Prospects and Investment Opportunities of China's Smart Education Industry 2020-2025" shows that the scale of my country's smart education market exceeded 500 billion yuan in 2018. It is predicted that by 2022, the size of my country’s smart education market will exceed one trillion yuan.

Many companies have entered the smart education track because smart education is not only in line with the goals of future education, but also the planning direction of the government’s education modernization. Smart education has government endorsement. On the one hand, educational modernization has been mentioned many times in education-related documents issued by the government; on the other hand, the government is also seeking to cooperate with enterprises to establish pilot and demonstration areas and continue to explore. Whether it is the cooperation between the government and technology companies in the construction of smart classrooms, smart schools, and smart education demonstration zones, or the development of various educational technology products and platform systems by various technology companies, they all show the popularity of the smart education track.

03 Smart education subcategories

1. Classification by product type

Smart education hardware mainly focuses on application in learning scenarios and teaching The hardware in the scene includes things that can meet students' learning needs, such as learning tablets, smart desk lamps, translation pens, etc. Some of these hardware focus on using AI to tutor homework, collect data, and analyze children's learning situations, and some integrate original courses, Teaching and other resources; various intelligent hardware devices such as teaching whiteboards and smart large screens to meet teachers’ teaching needs. In the field of smart education hardware, there are companies such as BBK, Wenquxing, and Youxuepai that started out as educational hardware, as well as ByteDance, Huawei, Tencent, Internet, Xiaomi,Sogou, iFlytek, NetEase, Youdao and other Internet companies.

Smart education software mainly includes assessment systems, course platforms, learning terminals, courses, applications, resource integration platforms, operating systems, etc. These software will be used to assist teachers in teaching, student learning, and improve The efficiency in the use of teaching resources and the ability to integrate and analyze learning data reduce the teaching burden of teachers and the learning burden of students. For example, the OK smart education brand, a project incubated by New Oriental, relies on the school's information-based teaching platform and personal learning terminals to intelligently and targetedly push learning materials to lecturers through the recording and analysis of learning data in all scenarios.

In the comprehensive category, there are mainly smart classrooms, AI exam solutions, smart classrooms, smart campuses and smart education demonstration areas.

In terms of smart education demonstration zones, companies usually seek cooperation with governments and schools. For example, iFlytek has successively won the bid for a 688 million yuan smart education project in Jinshui District, Zhengzhou City, a 126 million yuan smart education project in Wuhu Yijiang District, and a 469 million yuan bid for the large-scale application of smart education in Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone (Hannan District). projects and other regional smart education projects.

2. Classification based on business model

04 The prospects are great, but problems cannot be ignored

Smart education has great significance to current and future education. of. By combining the most advanced technology with education, we can not only customize personalized learning plans through big data, blockchain and other technologies, improve the student evaluation system, improve the quality and efficiency of teaching and learning, but also improve the utilization efficiency of high-quality teaching resources. , promote the sharing of teaching resources, thereby promoting the balance of educational development and promoting educational equity.

But while we have expectations for the future, we cannot ignore the many problems that exist at the current stage of smart education development. Currently, technologies such as artificial intelligence, 5G, and Internet+ are still in the exploratory stage. You can imagine the development of smart education relying on these technologies. Some companies rely on their deep technological strength to use technology to gain a foothold on this track. However, there are also companies that have rushed to transform across different tracks, simply stacking technologies and tools, and going online with the gimmick of smart education products.

As for smart education hardware, the current main problem is: on the one hand, do so many intelligent functions on hardware products facilitate learning, improve learning efficiency, or make learning more efficient? Students develop laziness. Parents have doubts about whether these hardware can improve their children's performance. On the other hand, are these smart education productsHas it truly achieved technological breakthroughs and innovations? Or is it just the migration and superposition of the original technology, just installing a screen on the desk lamp and adding voice recognition technology to the speaker, all remain to be considered.

In addition, the risk of technological proliferation also deserves vigilance. In terms of smart education software, when big data is used to collect and analyze learner data, as the number of users increases, the volume of educational data will also increase. The cloud deployment of educational data also greatly increases the risk of data exposure. This data may involve the privacy of students, teachers and other users. If there is a lack of supervision and reasonable use, there is a risk of data leakage and user privacy rights being infringed.

In the construction of comprehensive smart education solutions such as smart classrooms and smart campuses, it is understandable that smart cameras all over classrooms and campuses are originally installed for campus security. However, after these cameras become intelligent, every move of students is recorded and recognized, and there are even smart technologies that can recognize facial expressions and determine whether students are absent from class, leaving students with no privacy and freedom, and ignoring students' rights as human beings. This is a kind of technological alienation.

At the current stage, the application of various intelligent technologies is still in the superficial stage. It is just a simple combination of education and technology or even a simple application of technology. For example, some schools force the implementation of tablet teaching, but they simply combine some Real-life teaching functions are transplanted to tablets, but there is no breakthrough in teaching effect and quality. Instead, it becomes a burden for students. Smart education is to solve real-life problems. If it is not a technology that can improve the quality and effect of teaching and ultimately serve learners, but is only used in a formal way, it cannot be called true smart education. When the optimal solution for the integration of technology and education is truly found, the face of education will be completely new.

After the issuance of the "double reduction" policy, the burden of off-campus training on students has been greatly reduced, and the core scenarios of education will shift more to schools and families, and smart education application scenarios include both. As the future direction of the national education modernization plan, smart education has national policy support. For players on the smart education track, double reduction may not be an opportunity. In the future, we should think about how to truly realize the effects of smart education, serve learners, and cultivate smart and innovative talents.

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