How is BIG DATA affecting your instructional process?

1. Big Data! How is BIG DATA
impacting the instructional
process in your school/district?
Sandra Paul
Chief Technology Officer
Sayreville Public Schools

2. Agenda
● Big Data
● Big Data in Industry
● The Good
● Data in education and the classroom
● Change in instructional process
● Security of Data
● The Bad

3. What is Big Data?

4. Big Data in Industry
“Big data” is the fine-grained information about customer
experiences, organizational processes, and emergent
trends generated as customers conduct normal business.
The organization of this data serves as a rich source of
business analysis to improve performance and even point
to new opportunities -
- EDUCAUSE LIVE! - THE RISE OF BIG DATA IN HIGHER
EDUCATION* - Presenter Louis Soares

5. THE GOOD

6. Higher Education
● Course enrollment
● Classroom Instruction
● Student services
● Retention of students

7. Arizona State University Data
Degree monitoring system that keeps tabs
on how students are doing in their majors.
Suggestion of friends
Prevention of student drop-out
Course selection
Prediction of success
Individualized lessons

8. What data are you looking for to
provide evidence of your students’
growth?

9. How Big Data
can be used in
K-12?

10. NMC-Horizon Report 2014

11. Reasons for Big Data
● Targeted instructions
● Prevention of drop-outs
● Individualized student
services
● Student feedback
● Real-time evaluation

12. Types of Data in the classroom
In-class: tests, quizzes, exams
Immediate: - Kahoot, Geddit, ExitTicket,
Clickers, Polleverywhere, PearDeck, etc.
State: - PARCC, SAT, ACT
Other: Assistive Tech, RtI, WriteToLearn,

13. Type of Assessments

14. Learning Analytics - Horizon
Report 2014

15. Learning Process
Bloom’s Taxonomy
IEPs - Individualized Education Plans
Strengths/Weakness

16. Talking to the Kids
● Conversation with students
● Personal best of the students
● Competing with themselves
● Customize learning to each student
● Each student looking at their own
data

17. THE BAD

18. Student Privacy
FERPA
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
(20 U.S.C. § 1232g; 34 CFR Part 99)

19. Data Mining Students Data
Scanning of student data for trends:
● shopping
● searching
● demographics
● likes/dislikes
● advertising

20. Federal Guidelines
Private Company
versus
Private Student
Information

22. Why do we need data?
To Do the
Right Thing
for
Students

23. Thank you
Contact information:
Twitter: @spaul6414
LinkedIn: Sandra Paul
Goggle+: spaul6414
Email: spaul6414@gmail.com