Is every move of a child quantified and scored? Education apps should strengthen access review education | children | apps
Every move of a child is quantitatively scored, and this educational philosophy that goes against educational laws is increasingly extreme with the support of digital educational tools, even standardizing student behavior to minutes.
Recently, Banyuetan published an article titled "Quantitative Scoring for Every Action of Students? Don't Misread Education Digitalization". The article reflects the negative impact of an app that covers 30 million students in practical applications, which has attracted attention from all walks of life.
Under the constraints of this app, students feel like they are wearing a tight band, constantly being compared and evaluated, causing some children to question themselves and fear learning. This seriously deviates from the original intention of education - to cultivate individuals with sound personalities and independent thinking.
Education is not about imprisoning students, but about respecting their individuality, providing scientific guidance, and allowing every student to exert their subjective initiative and freely explore the unknown world.
Half Moon Talk reporters also learned that although there is no "blessing" like the app in the article, grading students' every move has been implemented in some schools for many years. This app also caters to the "demand" to a certain extent: some schools use the banner of scientific evaluation to include student behavior in standardized management, and if there is a slight difference, points will be deducted, and everything will be based on scores. This approach actually treats students as industrial products, and each one must strictly comply with the factory settings.
The modernization of education cannot be separated from educational digitization. The original intention of introducing digital technology to empower educational evaluation reform is to facilitate standardized behavior, exemplary learning, and standardized evaluation in campus learning and life. Whether digital tools are used well or not depends on whether developers and users have the correct educational philosophy, otherwise, good flowers will also bear negative consequences.
We also learned during our interviews that some teachers use the educational app mentioned above as a tool to encourage students, with only added items; Some teachers use it as a tool for managing students, with only deduction items. The former is welcomed by students, while the latter is widely criticized. The same tool, different uses, presents different effects.
Technology must be oriented towards goodness, and technology in the field of education should ultimately aim to promote healthy growth of children. With the acceleration of education digitalization construction in our country, the development and use of these educational apps with what educational concepts are the premise and foundation for whether these technological tools can be widely accepted and promoted. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen the ethical review of educational apps and improve the digital literacy of users.
Taking education evaluation as an example, how to scientifically set quantitative indicators, scoring standards, reward and punishment methods, and who will supervise and implement them are all specific issues that need to be considered under the implementation of the "quantitative indicator scoring system". A certain consensus and norms need to be formed, and schools or teachers cannot be left to their own discretion.
When choosing evaluation tools, we must also consider the applicability of the evaluation object. The evaluation objects of education are different individuals, each child has different personalities and characteristics, and each child is unique. Information tools should be used to enhance personalized education, rather than the opposite. At the same time, educational evaluation cannot rely solely on technical tools, but should follow the values of humanization and conduct diversified and differentiated evaluations.
At the same time, we should resolutely crack down on commercial activities that use the banner of education and exploit parental anxiety to seek improper benefits.
Relevant departments have clearly stipulated the use of educational mobile Internet applications for a long time. First, it is not allowed to charge, and second, it is not allowed to rank, regardless of performance or conduct. However, some businesses still use various pretexts to consume the anxiety of parents, attempting to exploit regulatory loopholes and profit from gray boundaries.
Children are not commodities, and education cannot be invaded by commercialization. Such a profit chain must be cut off. In addition to the exit mechanism, relevant laws and regulations should also be followed up in a timely manner, and improper profit-making behaviors should be severely punished, so that educational mobile Internet application developers can follow them at the beginning of program design.
As netizens have called out, we do not want school education to become a cold standardized manufacturing factory. Please use warmth to protect children's curiosity and creativity, and guide them to move upwards and towards goodness.
