Schools are swamped with data on a daily basis. Senior leaders and classroom teachers are constantly challenged to make decisions about what information to use and what to discard. Alistair Smith, Frog, and Billy Downie, The Streetly Academy, explore the powerful affect that the efficient use of data can have on the wellbeing and achievement of each and every student.
With technology enabling gamification, assessment and feedback loops, teachers can instantly assess their students’ level of understanding on specific topics and quickly intervene when they identify a gap in knowledge – personalising every student’s learning journey.
The session will explore practical ideas on how to use big data to maximise performance across the whole school community, impacting students, teachers and even parents.
3. “The ability of society to harness
information in novel ways to
produce useful insights or goods
and services of significant value.…
Big data refers to things one can
do at a large scale that cannot be
done at a smaller one”
Mayer-Schonberger and Cukier,
Big Data, A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think, 2013
4. “The ability of society to harness
information in novel ways to
produce useful insights or goods
and services of significant value.…
Big data refers to things one can
do at a large scale that cannot be
done at a smaller one”
Mayer-Schonberger and Cukier,
Big Data, A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think, 2013
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which questions generate most thought?
at exactly what point in a lesson learners switch off?
who will be bullied and when?
which concepts are actually most difficult?
the link between diet and progress?
how friendship networks impact on exam performance?
the emotional state of a year group as they approach
an exam?
which pupils thrive on what sorts of feedback?
the amount of time actually spent on homework?
the ideal design of a learning task?
which book a child should read next?
how room temperature affects learning?
who runs most in the playground?
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which questions generate most thought
at exactly what point in a lesson learners switch off
who will be bullied and when
which concepts are actually most difficult
the link between diet and progress
how friendship networks impact on exam performance
the emotional state of a year group as they approach
an exam
which pupils thrive on what sorts of feedback
the amount of time actually spent on homework
the ideal design of a learning task
which book a child should read next
how room temperature affects learning
who runs most in the playground
Big Data is shrinking the worldLook around you; who do you know?Six degrees of separation now 4.7 as a consequence of social media; chances are many of you have a direct social media relationship without having ever met face to face
Scale offers opportunitiesVolumeVelocity Variety
Scale offers opportunitiesVolumeVelocity Variety
AnalogueDigital Relationships in a school between two type of activity – typically 98% analogue and 2% digital: how do we digitise student learning product?
There’s a feeling that the more successful we become, the harder we have to work to secure the smallest of additional improvementsTwo types of data schools can use but we focus on one; we conduct post-mortems and autopsies and head teachers act as coroners in chief we neglect the pathologyHeadlights and tail lightsBrown and blue signsBut what if we could use the data to discern correlations, uncover patterns in everyday behaviour? What would it reveal about our schools our teachers our learners? In order to fully understand an individual we need to know them in the round
There’s a feeling that the more successful we become, the harder we have to work to secure the smallest of additional improvementsTwo types of data schools can use but we focus on one; we conduct post-mortems and autopsies and head teachers act as coroners in chief we neglect the pathologyHeadlights and tail lightsBrown and blue signsBut what if we could use the data to discern correlations, uncover patterns in everyday behaviour? What would it reveal about our schools our teachers our learners? In order to fully understand an individual we need to know them in the round
They eye of the storm is epitomised by the sit-down, winner takes all public paper and pencil exam - stubborn refusal to move beyond analogue in our use of dataprioritise single point learning outcomes over fluid and dynamic processpromote passivity and direct whole class instruction and rote learningridicule active engagement and personalised learning Brown and blue signsBut what if we could use the data to discern correlations, uncover patterns in everyday behaviour? What would it reveal about our schools our teachers our learners? In order to fully understand an individual we need to know them in the round
They eye of the storm is epitomised by the sit-down, winner takes all public paper and pencil exam - stubborn refusal to move beyond analogue in our use of dataprioritise single point learning outcomes over fluid and dynamic processpromote passivity and direct whole class instruction and rote learningridicule active engagement and personalised learning Brown and blue signsBut what if we could use the data to discern correlations, uncover patterns in everyday behaviour? What would it reveal about our schools our teachers our learners? In order to fully understand an individual we need to know them in the round
There’s a feeling that the more successful we become, the harder we have to work to secure the smallest of additional improvementsTwo types of data schools can use but we focus on one; we conduct post-mortems and autopsies and head teachers act as coroners in chief we neglect the pathologyHeadlights and tail lightsBrown and blue signsBut what if we could use the data to discern correlations, uncover patterns in everyday behaviour? What would it reveal about our schools our teachers our learners? In order to fully understand an individual we need to know them in the round
CD containing a movie is about a gigabyte: lay them out across the pitch at wembley and they would reach the top of the stadiumIn the time its taken me to get to this point in our talk humanity has created the same amount of information from the beginning of time to 2003By the end of 2015 global internet traffic will be in the order of 4.8 zettabytes a yearIn 2003 UC Berkley researchers calculated that human information had accumulated 5 billion gigabytes since time began (38,000 years ago with cave paintings)2011 every two days2013 every ten minutes1000kB kilobyte10002MB megabyte10003GB gigabyte10004TB terabyte10005PB petabyte10006EB exabyte10007ZB zettabyte
Credit and other Cards Credit LoyaltySocial Mediafacebook twitter linked InOn-Line Presence Amazon Netflix GoogleNational databases Driving Licence National Insurance Number
Berlin – Museum of FDR, SurveillanceAni phone
Berlin – Museum of FDR, SurveillanceAni phone
Tipping point Huge potential for insights and discoveries: Kirk Borne – novelty, class and associationJob opportunities Need to know how we know – experts need to interpretSix degrees of separation now 4.74Significance of networksHuggies and men and beer (correlation does not imply causation)Amazon – people who bought this also bought thisNetflix – others who watched what you watched rented thisWalmart – 2004 hurricane strawberry pop tarts x 700%
Berlin – Museum of FDR, SurveillanceAni phone
They eye of the storm is epitomised by the sit-down, winner takes all public paper and pencil exam - stubborn refusal to move beyond analogue in our use of dataprioritise single point learning outcomes over fluid and dynamic processpromote passivity and direct whole class instruction and rote learningridicule active engagement and personalised learning
They eye of the storm is epitomised by the sit-down, winner takes all public paper and pencil exam - stubborn refusal to move beyond analogue in our use of dataprioritise single point learning outcomes over fluid and dynamic processpromote passivity and direct whole class instruction and rote learningridicule active engagement and personalised learning
They eye of the storm is epitomised by the sit-down, winner takes all public paper and pencil exam - stubborn refusal to move beyond analogue in our use of dataprioritise single point learning outcomes over fluid and dynamic processpromote passivity and direct whole class instruction and rote learningridicule active engagement and personalised learning Brown and blue signsBut what if we could use the data to discern correlations, uncover patterns in everyday behaviour? What would it reveal about our schools our teachers our learners? In order to fully understand an individual we need to know them in the round
Berlin – Museum of FDR, SurveillanceAni phone
So much informationWhat is useful?What isn’t?What is useful that we didn’t know was useful?
Case Study – Streetly School (screen shoots)School level – leadership of technologies; systems leadership; data evidencing for change via systemsKey messages ethos and culture/systems/driveData pulled together to facilitate processesTeachers and TeachingLook at teachers and teaching and the systems which surround both – the suite; all teachers have access to all dataStudentsStudents access to their own dataUse of social media to drive students to Frog
Case Study – Streetly School (screen shoots)School level – leadership of technologies; systems leadership; data evidencing for change via systemsKey messages ethos and culture/systems/driveData pulled together to facilitate processesTeachers and TeachingLook at teachers and teaching and the systems which surround both – the suite; all teachers have access to all dataStudentsStudents access to their own dataUse of social media to drive students to Frog
Case Study – Streetly School (screen shoots)School level – leadership of technologies; systems leadership; data evidencing for change via systemsKey messages ethos and culture/systems/driveData pulled together to facilitate processesTeachers and TeachingLook at teachers and teaching and the systems which surround both – the suite; all teachers have access to all dataStudentsStudents access to their own dataUse of social media to drive students to Frog
Case Study – Streetly School (screen shoots)School level – leadership of technologies; systems leadership; data evidencing for change via systemsKey messages ethos and culture/systems/driveData pulled together to facilitate processesTeachers and TeachingLook at teachers and teaching and the systems which surround both – the suite; all teachers have access to all dataStudentsStudents access to their own dataUse of social media to drive students to Frog
Case Study – Streetly School (screen shoots)School level – leadership of technologies; systems leadership; data evidencing for change via systemsKey messages ethos and culture/systems/driveData pulled together to facilitate processesTeachers and TeachingLook at teachers and teaching and the systems which surround both – the suite; all teachers have access to all dataStudentsStudents access to their own dataUse of social media to drive students to Frog The Future > Back to Alistair
