Mike Reali
The digital
world is becoming the norm in our daily lives. Even, the education industry is
on the verge of transferring the way of teaching to a data fueled way of
learning. In every change their will always be positives and negatives. In this
article it includes data-enabled educational tools, protection of students data,
and digital school system.
The start
of using data enabled educational tools will benefit the students’ first hand,
for example by learning modules that adapt to the students needs in real time
and dashboards to track the students progress towards learning objectives. This
can give the students an upper hand in gaining knowledge more effectively. The
studies have showed that this program has overall increased 1.5 years of the students’
progress in just one year on average. By upgrading to a digital learning
experience, it gives the students another way of acquiring information by
adapting to the individual’s own method. Another aspect is it lets the people
customize the page with their own interest. This also lets the students add
their interest to become diverse in all aspects of life.
Technology
makes its more accessible and easier to all users. The downfall of this is risk
of security issues. Privacy is a major implication in the new way of learning.
This is a problem with the whole digital world and no one wants their personal information
going out on the web or the possibility that the information is being accessed
by a third party. Privacy of people’s data is an immense problem with all
industries like banking, medical information, and even peoples’ exact location.
The downfall of the data-enabled learning is the sense of trust with the
information. This is a setback to the parents because of the fact of how the
data would be tracking their children’s Internet use in school and the concern
of personal information getting in the wrong hangs.
The digital
school system offers parental access to data about their child’s grades and
progress because it’s all-online. The data can also be accessed on a
smart-phone by an app. The flaw in all this technology is how it takes way from
the quality of the classroom experience. On the other hand, Michael Chui the
author of the article states, “data driven tools and technologies can also
suggest ways to improve teacher’s performances”. This shows how it wouldn’t only benefit
students, but also the teachers as well.
There will
always be a risk in the privacy aspect, however; at least some information must
be shared on the software program to tailor the individuals’ needs. I think
this article has overlooked the aspect of a par value to make sure everyone is
on the same pace. This wouldn’t be a major problem just have to add it to the
software. Finally, Another feature that was not talked about was the cost of
this and if the school would cover it all.
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