"This is my homework today. It is a personalized homework designed by the teacher for me based on my learning situation." said a student from the Youie Experimental Middle School affiliated to Minhang District Education College. Relying on the "Minzhi Homework" platform, "Smart Pen" instantly collects and transmits student homework data in real time, comprehensively feedbacks students' learning situation, and teachers teach according to their aptitude.
"The magic mirror is so fun, I will check in every day." During the break, students from Qibao Experimental Primary School came to the magic mirror to check in. The magic mirror used AI intelligent interaction analysis algorithm and other technologies to accurately capture students' sports postures in real time. Students can choose suitable sports events based on their own body.
"The school has become the teaching norm for our school by using intelligent teaching assistants and students' intelligent student companion assistants. Both teachers and students can realize personalized learning and differentiated teaching through digital space." A teacher from Minhang Technology Senior High School affiliated to East China University of Science and Technology said.
There are many "digital education" cases like this that happen to Minhang teachers and students. In recent years, Minhang District has continued to promote the construction of education informatization , and the digitalization of education has reached a new level.
Digital transformation
promotes regional smart education transformation
Since Minhang District became the first national smart education demonstration zone in 2019, it has based on the "1258" project, built a regional smart education cloud platform and actively explored large-scale teaching practices based on data-driven large-scale teaching according to aptitude.
"1258" project is to create a vertical service education cloud platform, relying on two application assistants of intelligent teaching and intelligent student companion to carry out personalized teaching, providing precise services to five types of users, students, parents, teachers, managers and citizens, focusing on eight business scenarios: classroom teaching, adaptive learning, course selection, campus activities, club participation, social practice, home-school interaction, and subject experiments, enriching various educational and teaching application needs, and comprehensively promoting the in-depth integration of information technology and education and teaching.
"Smart education plays a very important role in the process of building a smart city in Minhang. We attach great importance to education reform and development. Under the guidance of the overall goal of urban digital transformation in Minhang District, and combined with regional education development plans and actual needs, the "Minhang District Government - Implementation Plan for the Creation of a National Smart Education Demonstration Zone" was formulated." Minhang District Deputy District Mayor Liu Yan introduced in the live broadcast of the Shanghai Education Expo.
This plan is deployed at the district level to promote large-scale teaching in accordance with the aptitude driven by data, establish a corresponding smart education cloud platform , build a smart learning environment, explore personalized and differentiated teaching and learning, carry out digital education evaluation, take the lead in carrying out precise public services for education based on one-stop service, and use digital transformation to comprehensively promote regional smart education reform, and promote more fair and higher quality and steady development of Minhang education.
It is reported that the smart education cloud platform has built a unified educational digital base, and has completed unified certification of five types of users of "students, parents, teachers, managers and citizens" on the platform, formulated data standards and specifications, developed data exchange interfaces, promoted business data entry, built teaching theme databases, and supported the cloud deployment of district and school applications. This enables the platform to dynamically gather internal data in the education system, and exchange and dock with the city, district big data center, Suishenban , Citizen Cloud , and Municipal Education Commission Data Center to achieve data integration and communication at the city, district and school levels.
At present, the smart education cloud platform has connected to 48 education business systems, accessed 8982 data tables, and accessed 838 million data pieces. 62 data interface services are provided to the outside world, and 15 business applications have been called. The total number of interface calls has reached 3.49 million, and the total number of data calls exceeds 100 million.
Build a high-quality and balanced education system
Make it possible to teach students in accordance with their aptitude on a large scale
How to meet the development needs of every student through the district and school two-level intelligent homework platform "Minzhi Homework",? According to reports, the platform first collects data on the job burden, work quality, work habits, work attitudes, academic performance and other data through accompanying process data collection to realize automatic monitoring of homework business.Then use the analysis model to analyze the data to realize data-driven differentiated teaching, personalized learning, precise teaching and research and intelligent services.
Take the fourth and fifth grade node-type homework inspections carried out this year in the whole district as an example. The indicators show that the quality of fourth grade Chinese homework needs to be improved, and the reliability of questions, information, and distinction degree need to be improved. After discovering the problem, the teaching and research staff immediately reminded grassroots schools to make targeted improvements. "Through data collection and analysis like this, we have achieved data-based homework quality supervision and homework burden supervision, putting a "tightening curse" on teachers' assignments, so that teachers can optimize the quality and quantity of homework arrangements." Liu Yan added.
"In the 2019 survey, it was shown that nearly 50% of teachers ignored the individual differences of students, and more than 90% of teachers failed to implement the principle of "teaching according to aptitude". This is the main reason why teaching quality is difficult to continuously improve." Li Weijun, the principal of Zhuanqiao Middle School, said that at this time, the Minhang District Education Bureau was the first in the country to carry out data-driven large-scale teaching practices based on aptitude, and developed the "Minzhi Homework" platform. By conducting big data analysis of the collected homework data, accurately grasp the trend of changing learning situations, accurately locate weak points in teaching, and thus achieve teaching according to aptitude.
"The government builds standards and builds platforms, enterprises do products and ensures operation and maintenance, while schools can enjoy services and resources for free, and use smart platforms to explore ways to change teaching methods under the background of new technologies. Since the online teaching was launched, based on the data collected by the platform, teachers can better guide students to compile school-based homework and testing exercises suitable for learning situations, and improve online education and teaching."
"Minzhi homework" based on big data analysis has created conditions for teachers to accurately grasp the learning situation. With the help of the platform's data and the retention of students' process of answering questions, the teachers' preliminary data statistics work has greatly reduced, and won more time for front-line teachers to prepare lessons carefully and teach accurately. The teachers used the platform to draw "digital portraits" for students, fully understanding the potential, uniqueness and differences of students' development, and achieved very good results.
"Teachers have experienced a process that cannot be separated from disapproval to recognition and teaching work. Now, we have 97 teachers using the platform on a regular basis. It is generally believed that data-driven large-scale teaching in accordance with their aptitude can provide the most suitable education for every child." Li Weijun concluded.
It is reported that since the platform was launched in March, 156 schools (campus) have used "Minzhi Homework" to carry out online teaching in half a year, covering 83% of primary and secondary schools in the entire district. There are 5,631 teachers assigned homework through the "Minzhi Homework" platform, accounting for 36% of the total number of teachers in the district, and a total of 325,000 homework assigned. There are 120,000 students completing homework through the "Minzhi Homework" platform, covering 96.1% of primary and secondary school students in the whole district, and a total of 12.297 million homework has been completed.
After the start of school in September this year, Zhuanqiao Middle School introduced the "Min Xiaoshu" smart pen on the basis of the "Min Zhi Homework" platform, optimized the homework data collection method and built an interactive classroom smart teaching scenario. At present, Smart Pen has carried out school-wide pilot projects in 18 schools and class pilot projects in some schools. A total of 16,000 smart pen homework has been completed, and 7,447 people have participated in interactive classrooms. A multi-dimensional, high-quality online teaching support environment of "Minzhi homework + air classroom + interactive platform" has been formed.
Develop special courses based on campus scenarios
Explore a new model of education integration of five education
In the context of building a "National Smart Education Demonstration Zone", relying on resource technology platforms such as CCTV, People's Education Society and curriculum expert team, Minhang District is actively creating the "first classroom" of moral education, promoting the integrated construction of ideological and political courses in primary and secondary schools, and empowering ideological and political teaching with the digital transformation of education.
"First Classroom" focuses on the goals of "open and rich curriculum resources, new moral education teaching space, and high-quality faculty", and uses holographic projection and multimedia intelligent devices to provide students with an immersive classroom experience. Based on the characteristics of our school, each school in Minhang develops courses based on various campus scenarios, and explores a new model of education that integrates five education.
"We have built the entire campus into an AR smart campus. In the AR Baicao Garden, students explore the mysteries of common medicinal and food-honored plants around them; in the AR Museum, students can talk to the exquisite national treasures in the Palace Museum ; in the AR martial arts museum, our intelligent exercise game uses infrared somatosensory collection and posture estimation calculation methods to correct students' movement postures and improve students' physical health; in the AR library the ' Easy Learning ' intelligent learning companion system optimizes learning resources and improves interaction efficiency." Chen Xiaomiao, principal of Qiangwei Primary School, introduced.
Shanghai Qibao Experimental Primary School’s “Wild Kids” course extends after-school service courses based on the “ double reduction ” policy, and uses digital technology to drive innovation in educational and teaching scenarios, accurately providing children with personalized learning space, and creating vitality for “double reduction”.
According to Wang Jin, principal of Qibao Experimental Primary School, during large breaks, breaks and after-school care, children can perform interesting physical exercises in the AI intelligent "magic mirror gym"; the "safe experience hall" allows children to learn skills in virtual space in an immersive way; after returning home, teachers push and expand learning resources to students with extra-study through online "learning community", provide targeted online tutoring for students with learning difficulties, and solve the confusion of homework; "Little Fatty Kitchen" learns to make fat-burning dishes online; "Ancient Poetry and Essays" accumulate poetry in the game.
It can be said that Minhang’s smart education has provided strong support for the implementation of the “double reduction” system project. In implementing the "5+2" after-school service arrangements in school, Minhang further improves the school's after-school service level through data-driven educational and teaching scenario innovation and better meets students' diverse needs. In February this year, it was also selected as a typical case of "double reduction" in the Ministry of Education and promoted it nationwide.
Digital transformation of education is a hot topic of current education reform and practice, and it is also the development trend of future education innovation reform. Minhang's 10 years of deep cultivation have laid a good foundation for the digital transformation of education and also clarified the direction for progress.
Next, Minhang District will continue to promote the empowerment of digital education "double reduction", aiming at the pain points of teacher teaching, student learning, and education governance under the "double reduction", focus on strengthening the role of school education as the main battlefield, constantly practicing and exploring, deepening smart education, stimulating people's wisdom, and effectively creating a paradise for the children of Minhang to grow up happily, healthy and sunny.
"We will continue to promote the 'data-driven large-scale teaching of students in accordance with their aptitude', consolidate the digital base of smart education, and enrich the application ecosystem of smart education cloud platform. We will vigorously promote the application of "Minzhi Homework", realize the normal application of full coverage in the whole district, accelerate the pilot of smart pens, change teaching models, and build a digital transformation experimental demonstration school. At the same time, we will focus on the construction of the 'first classroom' of moral education, build a regional five-education integrated learning platform, and create a five-education integrated cloud space. In addition, we will actively build the 'Suishenban' education smart government service matrix to realize the digital transformation of education governance." Liu Yan said.
Reporter: Su Mingshan
Partial text and pictures: District Education Bureau
Editor: Su Mingshan
