Homework is the "business card" of school education, and it is also a key part of the implementation of burden reduction and efficiency.
At Meilan Lake Middle School in Baoshan District, this year's summer vacation homework is a bit special. An eye-friendly handwritten electronic paper PAD terminal, the uNote smart homework book, replaces the previous paper subject assignments and will accompany more than 300 students to spend two months of long vacation. This smart workbook has been packed with layered assignments carefully designed by teachers to ensure that students of different levels can get the most targeted training and consolidation in their studies during the holidays.
"Smart workbook" to achieve "precision drip irrigation" for daily operations
The market is full of massive question banks, but there are very few that really meet the needs of schools. For teachers and students, their time is limited, how to consolidate and improve the learning level of students through "less but fine" homework that meets the level of awareness of students in the school? Lake Myland Middle School has been exploring since two years ago.
In Meilan Lake Middle School, the daily homework process of students is like this - the teacher selects the day's homework from the school's "selected" school-based homework library, imports the homework release system, and sends it to different students in small groups according to the student's level, some students only need to do basic questions, some students only need to do a higher level of the problem, and some students need to try to complete the whole homework. When the teacher presses a enter key, students can receive the corresponding homework through the smart homework book, and after completing and submitting it with a stylus, the teacher can approve it through his own tablet device.
In this way, it not only saves nearly half of the time for teachers to assign homework and approve homework, but also makes teaching and layered homework a reality. In the past, when teachers corrected traditional homework, due to the limitations of time and space, students had fewer opportunities to get face-to-face approval. Through the wisdom workbook, the teacher can conduct "remote voice review" for each student, and it takes at least 5 minutes to handwrite the previous 100-word review opinion, and less than 1 minute to read through the voice. Using the time saved, teachers will conduct "1-on-1 after class" remote tutoring for individual students with weak understanding, communicate with students through smart workbooks, or send small videos to explain.
"In 2020, when the new crown epidemic broke out, during the days when classes were suspended and schools were suspended, we personally felt the convenience of digital transformation of homework management. In order to share the resources of the school-based homework library and have a basis for every homework in each discipline, the school has adopted the uNote smart homework solution through school-enterprise cooperation to open up the digital closed loop from teachers assigning homework, students writing homework to teachers approving homework, and students revising homework. Through this system, we have achieved 'precision drip irrigation + personalized tutoring' in the operation link. Through digital transformation, we help students reduce their burden and increase efficiency, and gradually realize the personalized customization of students' assignments. Chen Minghong, principal of Meilan Lake Middle School, told reporters.
Intelligent approval, early warning, reward... Personalized support for each student
At the end of 2020, one of the five application scenarios of the "Teaching Innovation Experiment of Large-scale Teaching based on aptitude supported by Data" led by the Shanghai Electric Education Center, the "Intelligent Approval Technology Application Experiment in School Education" opened a pilot study in Baohong Primary School.
The project adopts the green eye-protecting electronic ink screen without blue light as the student learning terminal environment; the handwriting function with electromagnetic pressure does not change the original writing habits; with the help of the intelligent approval system, it can dig and store the learning and behavior data of students' daily homework exercises; through the automatic collection of student homework data, realize the automatic review of homework, and establish the collection of student homework evaluation data, thereby generating personalized homework evaluation and providing students with personalized learning guidance and accurate exercises. Provide data support for generating digital portraits of students.
Not only that, the system can also automatically track students' homework behavior, when the student's homework time exceeds the average class homework time, the system will carry out time warning; when the student's homework quality is significantly lower than their average, the system will carry out homework quality early warning. Teachers regularly organize and apply the results to form a homework completion report and provide personalized guidance to students. At the same time, the personalized analysis report generated can also help students and parents find the deficiencies in learning in a timely manner, and then adjust the learning methods to help students develop good learning habits.
In addition, the school also enters the homework evaluation indicators into the intelligent platform of each class, and evaluates the students' homework completion, writing, homework quality, revision timeliness, homework progress and other performances in real time every day in the form of point rewards. Students can redeem points for the rewards they want, such as stationery, books, various classes at the school's Children's Palace, and students' favorite homework cards. Children who get an assignment-free card are free to choose one day as a no-homework day. On homework-free days, teachers actively guide them to meaningful family activities such as physical exercise, extracurricular reading, and hands-on practice.
"Driven by digital transformation, homework has gradually become an effective way to drive students to learn independently, teachers to optimize teaching, and schools to improve the quality of education, and let students harvest knowledge and growth while completing homework easily and efficiently." Wang Jialong said.
Author: Wang Xing