big data and analytics in education

Before I got into teaching, I have been a bit of a warning. the warning is that teaching is hard. the other thing I've learned along the way as I fall into teaching officially is that curriculum building is harder. Beyond that improving the curriculum and keeping on top of things is probably the hardest. that's my opinion.
Now basically after taking the course of New Technologies in TEFL at AUA, and working with technology and education, I started to draw parallels between them. I started to see that there is a lot of commonality between the technology space and the education space. they both other industries. They are all about pushing other industries forward, giving them the right tools, and the right people. and from a user or student perspective, it's all about the experience in the outcome.
I think teaching is also hard because it's not just a straight science. There is no one right answer with teaching. it is neither an art only. it's both. Technology is the same. that's all a craft and that's another commonality. between them. they take effort from both sides. I think to get it right is finding the balance between the science and the art and to really perfect that craft.
ultimately, like with any craft, it really comes down to the approach. but that's to stress as well that technology and education and not on the same path. on one hand, technology is propelling these under other industries forward. at a rapid pace and really disrupting them; disrupting itself even. I don't just mean in terms of releasing new versions of iPhone and new technology. but even the methodologies that are being used behind the scenes. that we as consumers don't see. are actually being questioned int he technology space. and I think that's where education isn't there. it doesn't have that constant change that I see in the technology field and that's what really leads to this ever-increasing gap between the academic world and the industry; the real world.
Kevin Robinson, in one of his TED talks, says that our education system isn't teaching people for the future it's not even teaching people for fifteen years in the future or in five years in the future. it's hard to see what the future is. I can say that the education system isn't teaching people even today. and that's challenging. so what have we done so far? so there is this big gap, so let's throw technology into the mix so we've added technology into the classroom.
however, as I mentioned earlier that education is hard. technology is doing a little better as there is a balance between art and science. and I think that's what teaching needs to do. with the use of big data and analytics known as data-driven education, we looked at a whole bunch of things. people think that technology inside and outside the classroom is disrupting the education process. it's taking control away from the teachers. my contention is that it should about bringing that information and data into the classroom.
in fact, there is no point in collecting data if we are not going to act on it. data is just a fancy word for information so it does make sense from a scientific perspective that we act on information we drive our decisions about d=ciiruuclum changes on information instead of on guesswork. of there is that balance there that human element that still needs to be there we can't rely on data ultimately data drive the decision but humans make the decisions and those humans should be the teachers
another big part of data-driven education if you're gonna be collecting that data you should be acting on it. not just on a macro level to compare and contrast different school systems but actually to look at your education system education yesterday compared to today and see how it's doing.
another example is to collect data about students' performance at school, every exercise they do, every interaction between the teacher and the students in order to personalize our education for the students this student was struggling for this topic let me sit down with for twenty minutes as a different teacher who read these notes and worked on it.