大数据时代班级管理平台的开发与应用研究

利用网络技术的先进性来实现班级管理的自动化,是信息时代大数据背景下的学校班级管理的实践创新和理论重建。该文设计开发的“中小学班级管理平台”,不仅能提高班级管理的效率和精确度,并且能给学生提供开拓视野、参与班级活动的平台,既使学校的管理科学化、正规化,又能调动学生参与班级管理的积极性、主动性;该文初步架构出学校班级管理现代化与校长课程领导力的关联模型,为学校课程实施水平的实质提升提供了一种新的促进机制。     

Metaphors we’re colonised by? The case of data-driven educational technologies in Brazil

ABSTRACT

This article discusses issues concerning the spread of data-driven educational technologies in Brazil. Here, as elsewhere, educational technology continues to be promoted optimistically as the bearer of a panacea for historically-rooted social problems. Whilst some of these technologies have indeed contributed to important widening-participation programmes in the last two decades, widespread advocacy of technological ‘solutionism’, reflected in gradually stronger policy demands for efficiencies to be improved through ‘innovation’, has supported a relentless marketisation of the country’s educational systems. As transnational corporations position themselves to take control of key areas of these systems, threatening to restructure the whole sector, data-driven educational technologies provide the latest example in a series of ‘new’ ideas offered in an ever-expanding market. Based on the notion of ‘conceptual metaphors’, which encapsulate specific ways of perceiving, thinking and relating with the world, this article examines key metaphors underpinning discourses surrounding data-driven educational technologies in Brazil. In particular, the article analyses ways in which these specific metaphors may be promoting perspectives that ignore difference and obscure broader questions concerning education, thus contributing to the reproduction of previously existing problems and supporting new forms of colonisation.     

Creativity development in preschoolers: The effects of children’s museum visits and other education environment factors

As one of the potential contextual factors for creativity development, children’s museum has been introduced to China from the western world in recent years, with the aim to offer a new informal educational environment to enhance children’s creativity. Based on experimental data for two groups of 4-year-old preschoolers (218 for the family mode and 202 for the preschool mode) from Beijing with an appropriately one-year long intervention (September 2017 to July 2018), this study examines the effect of regular visits to a children’s museum and other education environmental factors on young children’s creativity measured by Torrance’s Thinking Creatively in Action and Movement (TCAM) test. Results indicate that in terms of family visit, compared to the control group, the intervention that offers 18 times free tickets to visit a children’s museum significantly improved the experiment group’s originality (a sub-measure of creativity) by an additional 34.51 %. A beneficial effect of this intervention was also found in improving children’s fluency from the sample of preschool group visit (46.80 %). In addition, family education environment factors such as public preschool attendance, frequency of visits to science museums, and the degree of parents’ latitude were also found to positively affect creativity. Children’s personal features such as sex and geographic location of the family are also found to be related with children’s creativity.     

关于完善高考制度的几点思考

纪念恢复高考制度三十周年,不仅是纪念恢复高考制度本身,更重要的是要回顾邓小平同志在改革开放等各方面的思想并进行理论总结,还应思考恢复高考制度在构建公正、公平的社会制度中的重大意义。     

陶行知教育思想及对我们的启迪

本文较为系统地论述了陶行知教育思想,以及对我们今天大众化教育,终身教育、素质教育和师德建设的启迪意义。     

基于网络空间平台的高校教育技术教学改革实践

基于网络空间平台的教育技术公共课,应该改变以教师和课堂为中心的教学模式,改革教学方法、学习方法、考核形式。通过搭建教师网络空间平台,实施混合式学习,并采用多元评价方法,强调以学生为中心的个性化学习,在学习实践中提高他们的教育技术素养。     

教育生态学对信息化教学资源建设与应用的启示

随着教育信息化经过了大规模的硬件投资、师资培训、资源建设后,信息化教学资源作为一种新生的物种逐渐被教师所熟悉与应用。文章在教育生态学理论的指导下,通过文献分析法,将其视为一个有机、复杂、统一的生态系统,提出信息化教学资源的平衡、动态、可持续发展的对策,促进信息化教学资源的快速发展与创新应用,不断推进教育信息化的进程。     

A “Deleterious” Driver: The “First Teacher” Reform in Sweden

This article investigates the implementation of the “förstelärare” or “First teacher” reform in Sweden. We draw upon the insights of a superintendent, union official, principal, three First teachers, and two of their colleagues in one school, and recent literature on career development reform. We employ Michael Fullan’s overview of the “right” and “wrong” drivers of educational reform to analyse the extent to which the First Teacher initiative cultivated productive “professional capital.” The research reveals: how broader national policy aims were in clear tension with municipal-wide school development, and school-level development efforts; the perverse effects of a strong focus upon salary on professional conduct; and how an emphasis upon teachers’ roles per se undermined the espoused policy focus on enhancing teaching. The research cautions against the problematic effects of the initiative on more profession-oriented prerogatives, and how more external, “deleterious,” drivers of reform militate against more productive professional capital.