From the old three things of "a blackboard, a piece of chalk, and a book" to the new three things of "a computer, a tablet, and a smart screen", the power of science and technology represented by AI is accelerating the classroom to break through the space of the three-foot podium, breaking the limitations of geography and resources, and making big data a reality for differentiated teaching. What kind of attitude will sentient beings under this wave of digital education have to embrace the changes?
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The evolution of chalk and chalkboard
A classroom clogged with black technology
Perhaps everyone has their own cognition and ideas about the "future classroom", but the smart large screen (electronic whiteboard) is always the existence of the C position. At the 83rd Educational Equipment Exhibition, the smart large screen has become the existence with the highest appearance rate, whether it is a professional interactive electronic whiteboard manufacturer such as Hitevision Technology and Xiwo, or a solution provider such as iFLYTEK and Inspur Digital, and even upstream enterprises such as Xinhua III and Hikvision, all regard the smart large screen as a key product display.
As a parent of a fourth-grade child in primary school, there was originally a certain resistance to the electronic whiteboard and smart screen, and subconsciously believed that the use of this kind of electronic display screen in the campus classroom for a long time would have a certain impact on the child's eyesight, but when I really had an in-depth understanding and personal experience, I found that the wisdom screen in the classroom was no longer what it was like in the memory of the 80s and 90s.
The smart large screen (electronic whiteboard) has attracted much attention
In the central exhibition hall of Chongqing International Expo Center in China, the "intelligent digital green board" brought by Hitevision Technology has become the focus of attention of the audience, with full lamination technology, 178° super vision to show large angle and non-reflective screen, so that students can get a good visual experience no matter where they sit in the classroom, it can be said that it has successfully solved the stubborn problem of the "golden seat" area of the classroom, and has TUV hardware low blue light, no flicker multiple certification, watch in professional eye protection mode, the overall visual perception of the picture is very comfortable.
In addition to the eye-protecting effect, the "smart digital green board" is also equipped with innovative siphon optical technology, which can accurately capture the handwriting and sensitively restore the moment of writing with the "intelligent interconnection" function. During the experience, the reporter found that the screen can synchronize the writing process in real time, accurately restore the handwriting, and almost do not feel any word skipping and jamming problems.
In addition to hardware iteration and innovation, this kind of smart blackboard has joined hands with AI technology companies to create collaborative solutions to introduce AI and big data into classroom education.
In terms of daily teaching, a good lesson plan is the foundation of a good lesson. In the traditional education model, the lesson plan of a 45-minute lesson often needs to be polished for hours or even days. How to free teachers from tedious and time-consuming lesson preparation, so that their work can be more efficient and their teaching is more targeted?
Huawei Qingyun and its partners have created the "Teacher Preparation Solution" to provide the answer. The solution introduces a large number of teacher-prepared teaching resources covering various grades and disciplines in the native office software to help teachers save time and effort to create high-quality teaching content. At the same time, in order to make the lesson preparation process more efficient, the solution also brings a dedicated office PC for teachers, which can easily connect mobile phones and office tablets to achieve multi-screen collaboration based on the distributed capabilities of HarmonyOS, bringing a "silky and efficient" work experience.
Huawei Qingyun and its partners have created the "Teacher Preparation Solution"
A similar full set of digital classroom solutions also appeared in the booths of iFLYTEK and Inspur Digital, and as a communication operator, China Unicom's 5G smart classroom was displayed in the form of a live display, allowing people to get a glimpse of what the "classroom of the future" looks like. By bringing a new generation of digital technologies such as 5G, AI, and big data into the classroom, the 5G smart classroom uses the large bandwidth of the 5G network to realize a series of novel teaching experiences such as 5G+4K remote interaction, intelligent assisted teaching, and flipped classrooms, making teachers and students feel like they are in the campus of the future.
The most surprising thing is the intelligent teaching assistance function of the smart classroom. Through the real-time perception and analysis of the teaching behavior of the classroom teacher and the state of the students, which knowledge points have not been explained thoroughly, which content has the strongest discussion atmosphere among the students, etc., these details have been recorded by AI, combined with multi-level data analysis, to provide support for accurate teaching.
China Unicom's 5G smart classroom
In terms of examinations, whether it is a physical education test or an experimental operation of physics and chemistry, the traditional testing process requires a lot of human resources to be invigilated, and the post-review process is quite troublesome, which has caused a lot of controversy. The emergence of the AI examination system effectively reduces the investment of human resources in schools and ensures the fairness of the examination to the greatest extent.
"Hello classmates, after AI algorithm analysis, you made some operational mistakes in the experiment. You can click on the action points below to learn more. This is a set of science experiment platform that integrates AIThe prompt,The main body of this science experiment platform called"HuitongI3"The main body of the science experiment platform is a 15.6-inch flat screen,Two cameras extend from the left and one on the right behind the screen:The higher camera on the right is a panoramic camera with a top-down ultra-wide angle,The slightly lower detail camera on the left has a side-view telephoto。
A science experiment platform that integrates large AI models
"Huitong I3" can not only record and guide students to do experiments, but also solve students' conceptual confusion through the AI large model teaching assistant in the system, and when the large model is implanted in the terminal, it can also play the role of "cognitive amplifier", cutting the granularity of the classroom to a finer level. Originally, learning only took place in a short period of 1 hour in class, but in the future, the classroom can be divided into at least three stages: before, during and after class, and it is expected to be refined into more nodes.
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Accelerate the implementation of large models
Intelligent education hardware incubates a new track
If the "future classroom" constructed by AI and big data allows us to see the changes in school education, then all kinds of intelligent terminal hardware products equipped with large models outline the blueprint for future family education for the public.
After the "double reduction", intelligent education hardware has become an important transformation direction of K12 education brands such as Good Future and Homework Help, and at the 83rd China Education Equipment Exhibition, the reporter also has a new understanding of the current off-campus education enterprises.
Taking Good Future as an example, the Xueersi Chapter 9 Model (MathGPT) became the main line of its entire booth. As a large model of education verticals, the Xueersi Nine Chapters model not only has excellent performance in the field of mathematics in problem solving and lecturing ability, but also is more competent for independent learning, AI Q&A, intelligent correction of Chinese and English compositions and other application fields.
Compared with the good future, the homework gang has a wider layout on the track of intelligent education hardware, and its various products in the booth impressed the reporter of this magazine. From common intelligent learning machines, intelligent reading pens, to card-style electronic ink word cards, wrong question printers, learning printers, homework help has even launched an AI learning table equipped with an eye-protecting desk lamp, almost all imaginable intelligent education hardware can be seen on the homework help booth, and behind these terminal hardware, is the blessing of the homework gang galaxy model.
The after-school service of Good Future Smart Education has created a complete curriculum system around different themes and different grades
It is worth mentioning that after-school services and intelligent teaching aids have also become the key tracks for such educational technology enterprises. The after-school service of good future wisdom education has created a complete curriculum system around different themes and different grades, and the rich and designed natural science gift boxes and aerospace teaching aids make everyone want to experience it, and the smart operation system provides a comprehensive solution of "content + tools + services" to support schools to carry out unified homework, hierarchical homework and personalized homework of "thousands of people and thousands of faces".
Homework Gang has also launched a cloud thinking and learning brand for after-school services, guided by teaching goals, reducing the burden on teachers from the aspects of high-precision homework question bank supply, high-quality homework design, multi-terminal learning information collection, multi-dimensional learning feedback, and multi-role learning information application, so that students can learn more efficiently.
From this point of view, education and training institutions are taking technology as an opportunity to try to provide services for schools, and the relationship between the two is changing from competition and opposition to cooperation. The large model provided by educational institutions can be a good assistant for teachers, with the help of big data to achieve accurate teaching for students, and at the same time can provide multi-dimensional analysis of class and grade learning conditions, and provide comprehensive learning reports for managers, which is not only the rigid needs of current school education, but also an opportunity for the two to cooperate.
iFLYTEK is undoubtedly the representative of cross-border science and technology enterprises, and the reporter of this magazine saw the resurrected "Su Shi" and "Li Bai" at the iFLYTEK booth.
"Can you write a poem about the moon?" In the iFLYTEK Education Model Experience Area, an audience member was asking "Su Shi" a question, and as soon as the words fell, a song "Water Tune Song Head" appeared on the screen, and a detailed explanation of the poem was intimately attached. This is a heuristic quality classroom created by iFLYTEK using the Spark model and digital human technology, allowing historical celebrities and scientific giants such as Einstein, Li Bai, Zhuge Liang, Turing, and Helen Keller to "walk" into the classroom, and assist teachers to answer children's every curiosity in real time.
iFLYTEK Xinghuo model and digital human technology to create a heuristic quality classroom
Virtual humans can not only assist teachers in teaching, but also become learning partners for students. At the scene, the audience can "receive" a virtual human classmate or examiner from Xinghuo Language Partner, and practice speaking one-on-one immersion, covering the needs of preschool, primary school, junior high school, high school, university level 4 and 6, IELTS and TOEFL, etc., making oral learning more interesting and easier.
"Please focus on the theme of 'quality of the times and craftsman spirit' to generate the teaching design of the second unit of the high school Chinese compulsory course. According to the requirements, Xinghuo Teacher Assistant immediately generated a professional teaching design that included the unit theme, teaching objectives, and learning task groups required by the new curriculum standards, and supported detailed editing and personalized modification, which greatly improved the efficiency of teachers' lesson preparation.
The reporter learned that the Spark model can automatically divide the course teaching links, and give specific analysis and targeted suggestions on teaching behavior, classroom Q&A, students' learning conditions, etc., to help teachers develop and improve teaching quality. However, it should be noted that many educational technology companies have a high degree of overlap in the positioning and function of large models to assist in the education track, and with the improvement of market saturation in the future, each large model will inevitably face direct competition.
Overall, AI education is not just an application of technology, it represents a new model of education, one that can adapt to individual differences and provide personalized learning paths. Under the wave of AI education, everyone from students, teachers, education administrators, to technology developers plays a different role in this change, and experiences different challenges and opportunities. AI has not only changed the traditional education model, but also inspired people's infinite imagination of the future of education. In this transformation, everyone is a participant and a beneficiary, and together they are promoting the development of education in a more intelligent and personalized direction.