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Tencent Education Announces New Basic Education Solution: Data is the Bone, AI is the Wing, Helps Upgrade the Education Industry

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Educational informatization has entered the “Smart Era” from the “tool age”. The technological power of AI + big data + cloud is helping to explore the precision education of teaching results evaluation to process measurement and multiple personalities. On April 20th, the second MEET Education Technology Innovation Summit was held. In the basic education special session, experts and scholars from the education field launched a heated discussion on “ecological coordination and intelligent evolution”, and conducted forward-looking discussions on the new vision of the high-quality development of basic education with the help of science and technology.

At the forum site, Tencent Education demonstrated its complete set of solutions for basic education, featuring AI + big data. At the same time, Tencent Education released the HP-Tencent Education Smartbook, China’s first in-depth customized smart education computer based on the Linux system, jointly created by HP, Intel, and Kirin. In addition, the “Tencent Education City Partner Program” was announced at the scene-that is, to recruit partners in the basic education industry from the whole society. Based on Tencent Education’s products and programs, with prefectures and cities as the unit, the government, education departments, To provide services to customers such as primary and secondary schools, it plans to develop 30 strategic cities, 50 partner cities, and build 100 top 100 schools.

(Signing Ceremony of Tencent Education City Partner Program)

Zhang Li, Secretary-General of the National Education Advisory Committee, Wang Qiong, Professor of Peking University School of Education, Zhou Jianshe, Director of China Language Intelligence Research Center, Zheng Lanzhen, Director of Nanhai District Education Development Center, Foshan City, Lu Dongmei, Director of Education Information Department of Tianjin Heping District Teacher Development Center, Tencent Wang Tao, Vice President of Cloud and Tencent Education, and Li Xuechao, Vice President of Tencent Smart Products and Vice President of Tencent Education, attended the forum.

Science and technology become an accelerator for the development of basic education, boosting the modernization of education

In the era of education informatization 2.0, the use of information technology to promote the innovation and development of basic education has become an important measure to realize the modernization of education.

At the forum, Zhang Li, secretary general of the National Education Advisory Committee, gave a video speech on the “Trends of China’s Education Modernization from the 14th Five-Year Plan Period to 2035”. Zhang Li believes that during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, in order to build a high-quality education system, it is necessary to strengthen the direction of socialist school running, grasp the key points, form a joint force, build the foundation of the education system, adapt to the new development pattern, deeply participate in innovative development, and focus on Make up for shortcomings, innovate and standardize service formats. It is even more necessary to make use of the advantages of online education, improve the lifelong learning system, build a learning society, and promote the all-round development of people. The intervention of the Internet and artificial intelligence has opened a new phase of reshaping education and learning formats.

(The Secretary General of the National Education Advisory Committee Zhang Li delivered a video speech)

Professor Wang Qiong of the School of Education of Peking University further analyzed the educational reform caused by artificial intelligence + education. In her view, smart education is not the same as smart education. We need to use technology to simulate more scenarios, create a richer learning experience, help cultivate students’ thinking ability, problem-solving ability, and traction, and turn our students into qualified talents who will adapt to the society in the future.

(Professor Wang Qiong of the School of Education of Peking University delivers a keynote speech)

“Disciplinary intelligence is the direction of intelligent education,” Zhou Jianshe, director of the China Language Intelligence Research Center, affirmed the value of technology in intelligent teaching. He said that taking Chinese as an example, Chinese is the foundation of various disciplines, and composition intelligence training is a comprehensive training to improve the knowledge and literacy of Chinese. The intelligent processing of Chinese knowledge and literacy requires theoretical guidance and technical support.

(Zhou Jianshe, director of the Chinese Language Intelligence Research Center, delivered a keynote speech)

To be a digital assistant in the industry, Tencent Education launches a comprehensive solution for basic education

In 2021, the “Two Sessions” and “Government Work Report” pointed out that the focus of education work is to “develop fairer and higher-quality education.” Starting from the positioning of digital assistants, Tencent Education continues to unite the industry ecology to promote the overall improvement of smart education.

Wang Tao, vice president of Tencent Cloud and vice president of Tencent Education, pointed out that in the field of basic education, there are three directions that need to be focused on: the refinement of education governance, education inclusiveness, and personalized teaching and learning. In this process, technology will still become an important boost.

Wang Tao said that in the past year or so, Tencent Education has focused on the core pain points and needs of basic education in the in-depth running-in with colleagues in the education industry, continuously consolidating products, technologies and services, and working with outstanding partners in the industry to focus on educational wisdom. Scenarios such as integrated management, scientific decision-making, examination and teaching, artificial intelligence education, teacher informatization literacy improvement, and learning science have precipitated richer and more mature product solutions.

(Speech by Wang Tao, Vice President of Tencent Cloud and Vice President of Tencent Education)

Pan Hongyan, general manager of Tencent Smart Education, introduced the uniqueness of this set of solutions at the scene. Tencent’s basic education solutions jointly launched by the middle and Taiwan with AI big data as the bottom layer and the integration of ecological enterprise services, focusing on teaching, examination, and management In key scenarios such as, home school, teacher development, etc., WeChat applets and enterprise WeChat are used as corporate entrances, and mobile phones, computers, tablets, and desk lamps are used as terminals to provide users with finely tailored services. Let teachers become the main body of education innovation, and allow education managers to implement more precise policies to stimulate the vitality of education. At the same time, based on its 1.2 billion user ecological connection capabilities, Tencent Education will provide a complete solution with its ecological partners, and fully serve the education authorities, schools, classes and families through more vertical and refined products and services.

(Pan Hongyan, general manager of Tencent Smart Education delivers a keynote speech)

Zhai Donghai, general manager of Tencent Smart Education Operations, further elaborated on the solution. Among them, it is worth noting that Tencent’s comprehensive solution for basic education combines the technology of AI and big data with the core scenarios of education. For example, based on Tencent’s deep accumulation in the audio and video communications field for more than 20 years, as well as the excellent performance of Tencent Conferences in responding to high concurrency during the epidemic, combined with Tencent’s smart campus related capabilities, it has launched a solution that fully meets the requirements of the “three classrooms” .

In addition, for exam scenarios, Tencent Education also launched an AI exam solution. Based on AI technology and data capabilities, it assists in the informatization of exams in subjects such as English listening and speaking, physical and chemical experiments, and physical education.

Among them, based on the oral AI ability, the whole process service of English listening and speaking test and intelligent machine scoring are provided to improve students’ language expression and application ability, and help improve the quality of English test and teaching. In the subject of physical and chemical biology experiment, based on the ability of information-based scoring and intelligent technology, a full-process experimental examination platform is provided to help improve the ability of subject experiment operation. In physical education, based on data analysis and video AI capabilities, a one-stop full-subject physical examination platform is provided to help students monitor physical fitness, improve motor skills, and develop healthy physical fitness.

It is worth mentioning that the Tencent Education AI exam solution can be traceable throughout the entire process, which also saves a lot of management costs for the education authorities.

(Zhai Donghai, general manager of Tencent Smart Education Operations, delivered a keynote speech)

In teaching practice, what changes did Tencent Education products bring to classroom teaching? According to Lu Dongmei, director of the Education Information Department of Tianjin Heping District Teacher Development Center, Heping District uses the smart campus platform and short video resources to achieve the most efficient and in-depth innovative application of the “Feynman Learning Method”, allowing responsible teaching scenarios to be realized. At the same time, the learning card developed by Heping District using big data can collect a large amount of data in classroom teaching interaction. These data will be deposited in the database to realize the connection between the data in the classroom and the data of self-learning after class. In addition, big data is also used to help teachers improve classroom teaching efficiency.

(Tianjin Heping District Teacher Development Center Education Information Department Director Lu Dongmei made a theme sharing)

Zheng Lanzhen, director of the Nanhai District Education Development Center, Foshan City, Guangdong Province, shared the exploration and practice of students’ English reading literacy training based on Tencent English. The Nanhai District Primary School will start the construction of a demonstration area in 2019. Through the reconstruction of teaching materials and learning materials, the unified compilation of teaching materials and the integration and sharing of online and offline resources are realized, and an online English reading literacy training model based on the English master is carried out. Tencent English has promoted the reform of English classroom teaching in Nanhai District, gave birth to a new ecology of English classrooms, and constructed a teaching method that integrates online and offline. Mr. English has not only reengineered the English teaching process in Nanhai District, but students have also formed a learning method using IT as a cognitive tool.

(Zheng Lanzhen, Director of Nanhai District Education Development Center, Foshan City, Guangdong Province, made a theme sharing)

Continue to promote basic education reform with technology, Tencent Education releases urban partnership plan

According to data, after several years of development, Tencent’s basic education-related products and services have served more than 1,000 provincial, municipal, and county education authorities across the country, landed more than 100,000 smart campus benchmark schools, and benefited more than 400 million teachers, students, and parents. . Adhering to the “open and win-win” mentality, Tencent Education will continue to cooperate with various partners in the education ecological chain to provide education managers, schools, teachers, students, and parents with systematic software and hardware products and solutions to help education. Development in the direction of higher quality.

More and more students and parents feel the convenience and efficiency brought by “AI+education”, but there are still many pain points in the process of intelligent teaching, such as the lack of professional teaching software systems, the lack of good learning resources, and the professional Lack of learning equipment, etc. In response to these problems, Tencent Education hopes to find a way to solve problems through technology-driven and ecological collaboration, and cooperate with ecological partners to create a set of smart education solutions that integrate software and hardware, including HP Smart Education Notebook and MagicPie Smart Electronic Paper, and AILA smart work light X1. In response to the current situation of vacancies in professional intelligent teaching equipment equipped with domestic operating systems, at the forum site, Li Xuechao, vice president of Tencent Smart Products and vice president of Tencent Education, announced that Tencent Education released the first domestic Linux-based system jointly created by Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Kirin. The customized intelligent education computer-HP-Tencent Educational Smartbook, improves the quality of teaching and learning in terms of education scenarios, personalized learning, and open learning.

“At present, the integration of technology and education is accelerating. The difficulties in the industry of’AI+education’ are not just technological breakthroughs, but also a deep understanding of the educational environment. Only an educational concept that is compatible with the educational environment can create a more advanced technology based on technology. Good educational product.” Li Xuechao said. In the future, Tencent Education will also work with hardware partners to provide more diversified hardware learning terminals for the market, and combine with partners in the content field to provide users with richer content and more refined services. In addition, Tencent Education will also involve high-quality channel partners and develop more exclusive channels for education to enrich its tentacles and perceive the actual needs of first-line users.

(Li Xuechao, Vice President of Tencent Intelligent Products and Vice President of Tencent Education, delivered a keynote speech)

In order to continue to contribute to the reform and construction of basic education, Xu Yongqun, general manager of Tencent Education Operations, announced the release of the “Tencent Education City Partner Program”, recruiting partners from the basic education industry from the whole society, planning to develop 30 strategic cities, 50 partner cities, and build new ones. 100 top 100 schools. The city partner plan aims to invite and recruit education industry partners from the whole society. It mainly faces the second and third tier cities, forms a city partner alliance, and builds an open platform, based on Tencent Education’s products and industry solutions, to operate Supported by the implementation of service partnership partners, we will be a digital assistant for the government, the Education Bureau, and primary and secondary schools in technology + education, and jointly build a technology + education ecosystem.

(Xu Yongqun, general manager of Tencent Education Operations, released the city partner plan)

In addition, the forum also held the Tencent Wisdom Education Application Demonstration Zone and the demonstration school award ceremony. Heping District of Tianjin City, Nanhai District of Foshan City, Qingzhou City of Shandong Province, Zhanjiang City, Yantai City Education Bureau Development Zone, Chang’an District of Xi’an City, etc. were awarded “Tencent Wisdom Education Application Demonstration Zone”, Wenyuan Middle School of Zhuhai City, Changzhou City Wujin Qingying International School, Yueyangdao Primary School in Heping District, Tianjin, Union Bilingual School in Qingpu District, Shanghai, and Tianjin No. 19 Middle School won the title of “Tencent Wisdom Education Application Demonstration School”.