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Charter School Network Offers Its Own Data System to All Schools. Digital Tools By Lillian Mongeau As gathering data about student performance becomes a bigger priority in education, schools are faced with different choices on how to capture that data.
A slew of tech companies offer a variety of products they’ve developed for schools, but some school districts are creating their own data systems. California-based charter network Aspire Public Schools is one of them. The school created a data system called Schoolzilla, a web-based data platform that is now available to any school who wants to use it for free.
The data tool, originally developed three years ago, allows teachers to synthesize data from multiple sources and create reports. “Teachers spent hours pulling data out of the attendance system, then the gradebook, then the tests, then matching it all together.” But academic performance numbers aren’t the only data captured. “Having all those reports at their fingertips gives [teachers] more time to plan and teach,” Utgoff added. Related. Where Instructional Design Meets Big Data by Reuben Tozman. “We didn’t cause the business to achieve its objectives, but our data supports the system for helping the business achieve its objectives.
You can do this by designing your interventions to work within the system (I’m not talking LMS or any technology for that matter) and generating data that’s important for the business.” The business environment, learner profiles, training environment, and IT infrastructure are all things that instructional designers consider in their design plans. For many in the instructional design space, the term big data is something that is probably neither interesting nor relevant to the craft of design. In the coursework leading to a master’s in educational technology, any discussion about using data to inform the design process is generally tied to creating courses that improve test scores. There is nothing about designing experiences to generate a certain and specific type of data. Where does big data fit in?