"What kind of educational products will be produced by the combination of technology and education? This matter is particularly worth exploring, such as the combination of artificial intelligence and education, and the combination of big data and education. " Yu, the founder of New Oriental, put forward his imagination about the future education model in the interview program "Thirteen Invitations": applying artificial intelligence, blockchain and other technologies to education, changing the organizational model of schools, the teaching model of teachers and the learning model of students.

What I expect is that integrating science and technology into education will change the face of traditional education and even bring subversive changes, which is actually the goal of wisdom education. Wisdom education represents the direction of future education reform. On this track, there are traditional technology companies and education industry leaders who have been deeply involved for several years, as well as Internet companies. Now that the "double drop" policy has been implemented, K 12 business has been strongly supervised and restricted, many institutions and companies affected by the policy have sought transformation, and the intelligent education track has also attracted the attention of the industry.

0 1 Wisdom education begins with the wisdom of all things.

There are many definitions of the concept of wisdom education. Some people equate it with educational informatization, while others divide it into a branch of educational informatization. Judging from the time when the concept appeared, after the reform and opening up, educational informatization appeared in the government's educational planning, while the concept of smart education did not appear until after 2008.

In 2008, Peng, then CEO of IBM, put forward the concept of smart earth in his report "Smart Earth: Agenda for the Next Generation of Leaders". He believes that with the strong support of a new generation of information technology (such as telepathy technology, Internet of Things technology, mobile technology, etc.). ), "Almost everything on earth-any physical object, process or system-can be perceived, interconnected and intelligent. Subsequently, the prefix of wisdom was combined with different industries, so there were smart cities, smart medical care and smart transportation ... In the field of education, the concept of intelligent education appeared.

Smart education is a combination of existing technology and traditional education mode in the field of education. Relying on the new generation of information technologies such as Internet of Things, cloud computing and wireless communication, it builds an intelligent education environment with technology integration, and creates an integrated, intelligent, perceptual and ubiquitous educational information ecosystem. Teachers can demonstrate efficient teaching methods, and learners can get appropriate personalized learning services and diversified development needs.

Wisdom education runs through the whole process of teaching and learning, and finally acts on learners, so that learners can get personalized learning services that match themselves.

Some people boil down the core problems of current education to three points. One is the problem of students' learning efficiency, the problem of schoolwork burden and the resulting problems of sleep and myopia. Second, teachers' teaching tasks are complex and it is difficult to teach students in accordance with their aptitude. Third, at the macro level, the uneven distribution of educational resources and the resulting gap in education levels in different regions. Wisdom education is the product of the combination of modern science and technology and traditional education, but it is not only the combination, but also the introduction of science and technology into education to promote the solution of various problems in the field of real education.

There is a good sample about how to solve the education problem through the combination of science and technology and education: In February 2065438+2008, Zhongqing Daily published a report entitled "This screen may change the fate", which mentioned that high schools in poor areas synchronized the teaching classes of Chengdu No.7 Middle School through large-screen live broadcast and shared the teaching resources of the city, thus changing the fate of some high school students in poor areas. While paying attention to the imbalance of educational resources mentioned in the report, the public also noticed that only the live broadcast teaching technology with low technical threshold, if properly used, can still play a great role in promoting educational equity.

Wisdom education is not just "sharing". Wisdom education is a new form of education supported by high informatization. Because it introduces more advanced concepts and technologies such as the Internet of Things, big data and artificial intelligence, it can cover more practical problems about education, so it is given more imagination and possibility about education. 20 12 The Ministry of Education put forward a new round of educational informatization development plan. Since then, "wisdom education" has become the focus of modern education construction.

02 policy support, enterprises settled in

Before the concept of "smart education" was put forward, it was better called "educational informatization". In different historical stages, "educational informatization" has different characteristics and emphases. The development mode and direction of educational informatization in different stages are related to the level of technological development in the same period.

After the reform and opening up, Deng Xiaoping proposed to develop modern education at the national conference on education. Limited by the technology at that time, the imagination of modern education is limited to the use of radio, television and other media; At the beginning of the 20th century, in the era of 1.0 education informatization, education informatization infrastructure construction projects such as "school-to-school communication" project and "rural remote project" were the main projects. After 20 10, the construction of educational informatization has achieved initial results, and it has been paid more and more attention in educational reform, and gradually shifted 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 environment, the Ministry of Education issued the "Education Informatization 2.0 Action Plan" in 20 18, which mentioned speeding up the construction of online intelligent classrooms, intelligent laboratories, virtual factories (hospitals) and other intelligent learning spaces, and promoting the whole process of deep integration of information technology and intelligent technology in education and teaching. Wisdom education has become the mainstream direction of educational informatization.

Subsequently, the Ministry of Education issued China Education Modernization 2035. Under the guidance of a series of official policies, a large number of science and technology enterprises have seen opportunities and entered the track of wisdom education. Some enterprises choose C-terminal intelligent education hardware research and development to provide intelligent learning environment for learners; Some enterprises choose to provide intelligent education-related teaching software and hardware for schools and institutions to improve teaching quality; Some enterprises choose to cooperate with the government and schools to explore and practice smart education solutions and create intelligent scenes.

In recent years, the market scale of smart education industry in China has been expanding, and the market prospect of smart education industry is very broad. According to the data in the Research Report on Market Prospects and Opportunities of Smart Education Industry in China from 2020 to 2025, the smart education market in China will exceed 500 billion yuan in 20 18. It is predicted that by 2022, the smart education market in China will exceed one trillion yuan.

Many enterprises enter the track of wisdom education because wisdom education not only conforms to the goal of future education, but also is the planning direction of government education modernization. Wisdom education is recognized by the government. On the one hand, education modernization has been mentioned many times in the education-related documents issued by the government. On the other hand, the government is also seeking cooperation with enterprises, establishing pilot and demonstration areas, and constantly exploring. Whether the government cooperates with science and technology enterprises to build smart classrooms, smart schools and smart education demonstration zones, or various science and technology companies develop various educational technology products and platform systems, they all show the fiery trajectory of smart education.

03 Smart Education Subdivision Category

1. by product type

On the hardware of wisdom education, it mainly focuses on the hardware used in learning scenes and teaching scenes, including learning tablets, smart desk lamps, translation pens and so on. , can meet the learning needs of students. Some of these hardware mainly use AI to tutor homework, collect data and analyze children's learning, and some integrate original courses, teaching and other resources; Meet the teaching needs of teachers, such as intelligent hardware devices such as teaching whiteboard and smart screen. In the field of intelligent educational hardware, there are BBK, Wenquxing, Youxue and other companies that started with educational hardware, as well as Internet companies such as ByteDance, Huawei, Tencent, Baidu, Xiaomi, sogou, Iflytek and Netease Youdao.

The software of wisdom education mainly includes evaluation system, curriculum platform, learning terminal, curriculum, application, resource integration platform and operating system. These softwares will be used to assist teachers' teaching and students' learning, improve the efficiency of teaching resources and the ability to integrate and analyze learning data, and reduce the teaching burden of teachers and students. For example, the OK Smart Education Brand, a project hatched by New Oriental, relies on the information-based teaching platform and personal learning terminal in the school to intelligently and pertinently push learning materials to lecturers through recording and analyzing the learning data of the whole scene.

The comprehensive categories mainly include smart classrooms, AI exam solutions, smart classrooms, smart campuses, and smart education demonstration zones.

In the smart education demonstration zone, enterprises usually seek cooperation between the government and schools. For example, Iflytek has successively won the bid for 688 million yuan in Jinshui District of Zhengzhou, 65.438+26 million yuan in yijiang district and 469 million yuan in Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone (Hannan District).

2. Classification from business models

The prospect is bright, but the problem cannot be ignored.

Wisdom education is of great significance to present and future education. Combining the most advanced technology with education can not only customize personalized learning programs 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 and promote the sharing of teaching resources, thus promoting the balanced development of education and promoting education equity.

However, while looking forward to the future, we can't ignore many problems existing in the development of wisdom education at this stage. At present, artificial intelligence, 5G, internet plus and other technologies are still in the exploratory stage, and the development of smart education relying on these technologies can be imagined. Some enterprises can stand on this track with technology by virtue of their profound scientific and technological strength. However, some companies are rushing to transform across the track, simply piling up technologies and tools, and launching them with the gimmick of intelligent education products.

It is embodied in the hardware of intelligent education. At present, the main question is, on the one hand, whether so many intelligent functions on hardware products are convenient for learning, improve learning efficiency, or let students develop inertia. Parents doubt whether these hardware can improve their children's grades. On the other hand, have these intelligent educational products really 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 of which need to be considered.

In addition, the risk of technology diffusion is also worthy of vigilance. In terms of intelligent educational software, when using big data to collect and analyze learner data, with the increase of users, the amount of educational data will also increase. The cloud deployment of educational data also greatly increases the risk of data exposure, which may involve the privacy of students, teachers and other users. If there is no supervision and reasonable use, there will be the risk of data leakage and infringement of user privacy.

In the construction of comprehensive smart education solutions such as smart classrooms and smart campuses, it is understandable to load smart cameras distributed in classrooms and campuses for campus safety. However, after these cameras are intelligent, students' every move is recorded and recognized, and even intelligent technology that can recognize facial expressions and judge whether students are absent from class has emerged, which makes students have no privacy and freedom and ignores their rights as human beings. This is a kind of alienation of technology.

At present, the application of various intelligent technologies is still in the superficial stage, which is only a simple combination of education and technology or even a simple application of technology. For example, some schools force tablet teaching, but simply transplant some real teaching functions to the tablet, which has not made a breakthrough in teaching effect and quality, but has become a burden for students. Wisdom education is to solve practical problems. If it is not a technology that can improve the quality and effect of teaching and ultimately serve learners, but only a formal use, it cannot be called real wisdom education. When we really find the optimal solution of the integration of science and technology and education, the face of education will be completely new.

After the release of the "double reduction" policy, the burden of students' off-campus training is greatly reduced, and the core scene of education will turn more to schools and families, while the application scene of smart education includes both. As the future direction of national education modernization planning, wisdom education has been supported by national policies. For the players on the intelligent education track, double reduction is not an opportunity. In the future, we should think about how to truly realize the effect of wisdom education, serve learners and cultivate intelligent and innovative talents.

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