Electronic diary mesh. Presentation on the topic "Moscow Electronic School (MES)

MES is a project for all participants in the education system - from teachers to students and their parents. It includes several components at once - a comprehensive infrastructure and content - an electronic magazine and diary, a library of electronic materials. Svetlana Romanova, product manager of the “Information Technologies in Education” direction of the Moscow Department of Information Technologies, told AiF.ru about exactly how this project is developing and what plans the developers have to improve it.

There is power in knowledge

AiF.ru: Svetlana Anatolyevna, great importance is given to the library of educational materials in the project. By what principle is it formed?

Svetlana Romanova: MES is a very large and informative resource for teachers, students and parents. Today, the project library already contains over 70 thousand electronic lesson scripts, which were compiled by the teachers themselves. Each teacher can develop his own scenarios for conducting a particular lesson, find the necessary materials for its organization, etc. He can load all this into the system. Other teachers can take these developments as a ready-made lesson written by someone else and adapt it for themselves, or create their own lesson scripts. As a result, teachers themselves become the main participants in filling the project’s library of electronic materials, which allows them to develop creatively and reveal their potential more fully.

This option also turns out to be useful for students, because they can find any lesson in the platform and select additional material on the desired topic, which will significantly expand the knowledge they have acquired. Parents have their own advantages from this library - they can study the content of their children’s curriculum at any time.

The fact that this project aroused a warm response from teachers is indicated by the fact that the amount of materials in the library has increased significantly over the year. After all, at the time the project started, there were only 1.5 thousand scenarios in the system. Moreover, they were compiled by the methodologists of the city methodological center. Now the increase in the number of scenarios through the efforts of teachers is more than 10,000 per month. The situation is similar with test tasks. We initially did not plan to introduce any restrictions, but on the contrary, we wanted to provide teachers with the most flexible opportunities for self-realization. The same applies to the selection of content for placement on the platform: the teacher can create materials and save them in his workspace. To make the lesson accessible to the entire city, teachers can submit their developments for methodological and content moderation. It is important that the content is educational and does not contain material inappropriate for children, otherwise we only welcome diversity and encourage the most active developers.

- How to get access to the library, where you can find out news about new products that have appeared in it?

Today all Moscow school teachers, students and their parents have access to the library. You can enter the library through an electronic journal and diary (by selecting the “Advanced” tab - “External links” - “Textbooks”) or via a direct link: uchebnik.mos.ru. Access via this link is provided to authorized users. New items can be found in the library itself by selecting the type of content you are interested in, subject and level of education.

Wide functionality

Today, for parents, MES is most often just an electronic diary. How do you plan to show them the full range of possibilities of the project?

Of course, MES, as I mentioned above, is a much more complex project and includes not only an electronic diary and magazine. This is the MES library, the content of which, in addition to lesson scripts, today includes more than 700 thousand individual elements (photos, videos, audio, text files), more than 4 thousand tests, 35 textbooks, 181 works of art, 6 virtual laboratories and 6 volumes anthology.

In addition, MES is a separate infrastructure for educational organizations. It includes turnstiles of the “Passage and Meals” information system, from which parents receive daily notifications about their children’s attendance and meals. Each school is equipped with a video surveillance system, which allows you to be aware of all processes occurring in the school. Schools are also supplied with a certain set of equipment: servers, Wi-Fi points in classrooms, interactive panels and laptops for teachers. It is convenient to work with the system inside the school with the help of gadgets - today this issue is solved by different methods: either the school itself purchases them for students, or it is allowed to connect the students’ devices to the system - smartphones or tablets. The platform allows the use of any device on modern mobile operating systems.

In order to clearly show parents all the advantages of MES, open events with representatives of DIT will be organized in the Smart City pavilion at VDNKh during the current academic year. During such meetings, leading experts on the implementation of IT in education will introduce those interested to the project using examples of individual services. Details about the events will be published on the MES project website - www.mos.ru/mesh. We invite everyone both to these events and to the permanent exhibition in the “Smart City”, where excursions are held daily, where you can learn about the services introduced by the Moscow Government not only in the field of education, but also in such industries as medicine, construction, video surveillance, transport and housing and communal services. The pavilion’s exposition presents all the components of a “smart” city that will be of interest to both children and adults.

Benefits for students

How does MES simplify the life of the student himself? How does the electronic version of the diary and the system as a whole help a child organize himself and his learning process?

MES greatly simplifies a student’s life. Firstly, the weight of the portfolio is noticeably reduced, because all textbooks are now in electronic form. Secondly, the service is always at hand: from anywhere you can log into the platform and find out about the schedule for tomorrow, inform the teacher about completing your homework. In addition, lessons using interactive scenarios make the learning process more vibrant and exciting. If previously students did not want to go to the blackboard, now teachers say that children are eager to show their knowledge at the modern interactive panel. MES is an opportunity for a child to always be aware of their grades and homework, learn through play and complete all the necessary topics on their own.

Features you need

- What services for teachers are in greatest demand? Which ones have not found practical application?

The service most actively used by teachers is the electronic journal, and this is obvious. This year, including based on the results of processing requests received by the technical support service, the magazine has been visually updated, and working with it has become easier and more comfortable. Most often, the teacher needs to give grades, mark those absent from class, or assign homework. Currently these functions are available only in the web version. Teachers ask us to implement the same functions in a mobile application. By the end of this year, we plan to publish an application for smartphones in which this functionality will be available. This will make the teacher’s work even more comfortable and independent of the location of the lesson - be it a classroom, a park or a museum.

As for unclaimed services, there are none. Before starting a project, we, together with the Moscow Department of Education, analyze its potential relevance.

What opportunities does a teacher get when working with the system? To what extent is the interaction between him, the child and the parent worked out in this way?

MES is a system in which teachers can be creative by creating new content, children can search for what interests them, and parents can view information about the progress of the educational process. Each participant will find something useful here for themselves. MES helps teachers save time and develop creatively in their profession. For a teacher, this system is, first of all, a convenient implementation of pedagogical tasks, adaptation of lesson content to the needs of a particular class, and an opportunity to improve academic performance due to children’s interest in learning. It is now possible to find an approach to each student, create a personal educational trajectory, and offer an individual set of content.

The feedback function in the electronic diary and journal is one of those features that, as surveys show, is most needed. The ability to interact not only in face-to-face communication or through social networks, but also using various new digital mechanisms in the Unified Electronic Educational Space of the city is a requirement of both teachers and parents.

- What other services are planned to be introduced into MES to make it even more useful and necessary?

A number of key trends are clearly visible in the world now: these include distance education, its individualization, and the introduction of gaming mechanisms into the educational process. We are trying to keep up with the times, so in the future we plan to launch projects that will use the concept of gamification (increasing the involvement and quality of information absorption by schoolchildren using gaming techniques), and we will also organize coworking spaces and IT training grounds, personalize education using big data .

The student’s electronic diary will be expanded to include communication services, targeted newsletters with the possibility of individual subscription by e-mail to materials about the results of the student’s progress, information about academic debts and the need to take action in cases of decline in performance. It is also planned to inform about the city Olympiads, events and important events of the city.

After the new year, the additional education magazine will start working, where all information about the child’s clubs and sections will be displayed.

Very soon, a new type of content will appear in the MES library - educational applications. Anyone, be it an individual or a large company, will be able to post their developments on the platform. This will allow students and teaching staff to choose the best applications and use them in the educational process completely free of charge.

The Moscow Department of Education is forcibly transferring the capital's schools en masse to e-learning starting in September of this year. The process is very active, but so far in a semi-official format - within the framework of internal orders and interdepartmental interaction. According to one of the main “innovators” of education, supporter and Moscow official Isaac Kalina, the time for testing has passed - it’s time to bring Wi-Fi, the Internet and gadgets to every classroom. One problem is the confrontation between parents, who, unlike officials, worry about the physical, psychological and moral health of their children. In response to reasonable arguments from parents, a group of anonymous developers from the Department of Education (DOEG) and the Department of Information Technology (DITgM) of Moscow declares the incredible breakthrough effect and safety of the Moscow Electronic School (MES), refusing to consider it a social experiment on the younger generation with unknown consequences .

According to all basic criteria - the absence of analogues in the world, the lack of detailed expert reports and a positive assessment of the application based on the results of 10 years of pilot use - MES (about the pitfalls of which “Katyusha” was discussed earlier) is precisely an experimental educational platform that is unacceptable to be imposed according to instructions. Members of the Moscow Parents Club turned to DogM for clarification: on what basis are modernizers displacing traditional education? Social activists drew the attention of the municipality to the fact that sanitary and psychological-pedagogical examinations of the information technologies used in the Moscow School of Economics were either not carried out at all or were an empty formality. There is no publicly available data on the studies conducted, on technical regulations for equipment, or on hygienic requirements for the operation of devices.

The official response from the Department of Education states that MES is being implemented as part of “providing modern conditions for training and education, modernizing the outdated digital infrastructure of educational organizations, distance learning technologies,” with numerous references to state development strategies, instructions from the President, and the government program “Digital Economy” etc. Then the federal laws and regulations stipulating the creation of MES were listed.

Note: the very fact that the answer was prepared by specialists in additional vocational education is strange, while MES is imposed on all schools as the main and only system of general education. How competent are the employees of the City Methodological Center (CMC) to analyze an electronic project? It seems that there simply were no other specialists in DogM. Therefore, there is no assessment of the content and expected effect of the MES in this report - it only talks about the legal framework that allowed educational experimenters to “swim behind the buoys.”

Finally, based on instructions written primarily by officials of the Ministry of Education and Science and the same DogM, the department categorically stated that MES is not a large-scale experiment on children, but a means of modernizing infrastructure and providing all those who suffer (students, teachers, parents) with electronic materials. That is, we are convinced that this is just an updated form of knowledge transfer with the same content. Although in fact it assumes a fundamentally different, clip-based lesson format, called a “scenario”. It is approved, by the way, by specialists from the same HMC, who check the text of the script for the absence of factual and logical errors (obviously, based on their own knowledge), as well as violations of Russian legislation. Anyone can become an author - that is, not only a teacher or a person with a specialized education. But the clip-based nature of the presentation, even with the most vivid illustrations and videos, will never convey information the way a classic book does. Along with the form of information transmission, the content itself and its perception by the student will inevitably change. The MES project itself, which verbally supports traditional education, calls the traditional textbook “boring” and suggests saying goodbye to it.

It is no coincidence that in the previous material on MES we drew attention to the fact that this project fully correlates with the globalist plan of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives "Foresight Education-2035", proposing a transition to virtual, remote learning with the replacement of teachers with managers of “personal career paths”. Foresight introduces such unthinkable concepts as “gamification of education” (learning as a computer game), “living textbook” (electronic textbook with changing content), “virton addiction”, “children of tablets”, “augmented reality educational systems” and much more (read more follow the links: http://map.edu2035.org/futuremap or http://changelab.tilda.ws/2035). Clearly, Foresight is aimed at breaking down and dismantling the traditional education system in Russia. The emphasis is placed in the same way in ME: developers of game applications are invited to collaborate to write scripts, and instead of systematized textbooks, the child is invited to carry a tablet with him as a platform “for bold experiments.” If all this can be called a single educational space, which is what the Ministry of Education and Science sought in declarations, then perhaps it is a single space of chaos and unsystematicity.

Activists of the Moscow Parents Club are forced to independently look for experts from the field of healthcare, education and IT who could talk about the harm and risks of implementing MES, and translate relevant materials and studies from foreign languages ​​on the impact of electronic devices and Wi-Fi radiation on health. Experts in the field of sanitary legislation analyzed SanPiN for the use of electronic learning tools and came to the following conclusions:

Interactive whiteboards/panels:

1. Requirements for the use of interactive whiteboards/panels (in reflected light) in secondary schools are reflected in SanPiN 2.4.2.2821-10 “Sanitary and epidemiological requirements for the conditions and organization of training in educational institutions” for lighting conditions when using them (clause 5.7) .

At the end of 2015, changes were made to SanPiN 2.4.2.2821-10 and requirements for interactive whiteboards/panels (in reflected light) were added to clause 10.18: Continuous duration of students working directly with the interactive whiteboard during lessons in grades 1-4 should not exceed 5 minutes, in grades 5-11 - 10 minutes. The total duration of using an interactive whiteboard in lessons in grades 1-2 is no more than 25 minutes, in grades 3-4 and older - no more than 30 minutes, subject to hygienically rational organization of the lesson (optimal change of activities, lesson density 60-80%, physical education, ophthalmic training). (Paragraph introduced by Amendments No. 3, approved by Resolution of the Chief State Sanitary Doctor of the Russian Federation dated November 24, 2015 No. 81).

In accordance with clause 13.1, responsibility for compliance with these standards lies with the head of the educational organization. Monitoring compliance with these requirements should also be carried out within the framework of a production control program, where a specific responsible person is indicated.

In order to prevent student fatigue, it is not allowed to use more than two types of electronic learning tools in one lesson. Requirements for the duration of continuous use of technical teaching aids are established only for electronic boards/panels with reflected light screens.

2. The screen of the new interactive panels of MES (Moscow Electronic School) is a light source, which, in accordance with the classification of technical teaching aids, reduces the safety index of these devices and requires more stringent requirements for their use. Interactive panels MES relate to low-voltage equipment, the safety requirements of which are reflected in TR CU 004/2011 “On the safety of low-voltage equipment.” Replacing regular blackboards with interactive MES panels is not provided for by SanPiN 2.4.2.2821-10. In accordance with the requirements of TR CU 004/2011 “On the safety of low-voltage equipment”, the MES interactive panels must be presented with a certificate of conformity issued by an accredited certification body included in the Unified Register of Certification Bodies and Testing Laboratories (Centers). Equipment certification is carried out on the basis of information about the testing of product samples. If the equipment is mass-produced, then in accordance with clause 3 of Art. 7 TR TS 004/2011, along with testing of products, an analysis of the state of production is carried out.

Conclusion: At the moment, studies of the impact of the learning process using interactive panels that are light sources (new MES electronic panels) on the body of children in the Russian Federation have not been carried out, and SanPiN hygienic standards have not been developed for them.

Use of laptops, tablets and other electronic devices:

The use of laptops is regulated by the same requirements as for personal computers (SanPiN 2.2.2/2.4.1340-03, clause 10.18 SanPiN 2.4.2.2821-10). Requirements for the font design of text on the screen, which is a source of light (having a low safety index), should be stricter than for text displayed on the reader’s screen, and even more so for a paper educational publication. Requirements for the font design of text for educational publications on paper are reflected in SanPiN 2.4.7.1166-02 “Hygienic requirements for educational publications for general and primary vocational education”, requirements for the font design of text on reader screens in the methodological recommendations “Hygienic assessment of readers and their use in educational organizations."

Conclusion: The use of personal tablets with a screen as a light source in secondary schools is not provided for by any current regulatory document in the field of ensuring the sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population. The use of smartphones in the educational process is not provided for by any regulatory document in the field of sanitary and epidemiological welfare of the population.

Influence of electromagnetic fields in the microwave range:

The main harmful factor in using wireless Internet access points (Wi-Fi) is the presence of electromagnetic fields in the microwave range. The impact of EMF on the population is assessed based on the effective values ​​of the electric field strength (V/m) in the frequency range 30 kHz-300 MHz (SanPiN 2.1.8/2.2.4.1190-03). Temporary permissible levels of EMF generated by PCs at workplaces in the frequency range 5 Hz-400 kHz have also been established (SanPiN 2.2.2/2.4.1340-03). Established guideline values ​​are used to assess the impact of EMF on the general population, but children and adolescents are a more vulnerable group, which implies a higher susceptibility to the effects of this factor.

Conclusion: At the moment, standard values ​​for assessing the effect of EMF on the body of children and adolescents have not been established.

Thus, everything that DogM offers is in its purest form an experiment, and an experiment on the health of our children. Parents have every reason to worry, including about the pedagogical effectiveness of MES, about the level of skills and competencies of graduates of this system in comparison with traditional forms of education. It would not be amiss to note that at the school for the children of leading American employees of Silicon Valley (Google, Yahoo, etc.), before the start of classes, students are required to leave all gadgets (including phones) in special lockers. They study in classrooms with the usual blackboards and chalks, with paper books, which Mr. Kalina and the army of globalizers call “old-fashioned.”

And here’s how Apple co-founder Steve Jobs resolved the issue of using gadgets with his children: “They don't use them. At home, we limit the time our children spend on their iPads. We communicate with them a lot, discuss books, history - whatever. But at the same time, none of them have the desire to bury their nose in an iPhone during a conversation with their father.”

EU expert, biologist, Arik Sigman Ph.D. devoted many years to researching the influence of computers and mobile phones on human health. He has traveled all over the world giving lectures and is a welcome guest in Russia. Sigman came to the conclusion that those who spend more than two hours a day in front of a monitor experience microdamage to cells and arteries and increase the risk of cancer.

During the tests, it turned out that pages on the Internet, as already mentioned, are not read, but are skimmed using a pattern reminiscent of the Latin letter F. The user first reads the first few lines of the text content of the page (sometimes even completely, from beginning to end), then skips to the middle of the page, where he reads a few more lines (as a rule, only partially, without reading the line to the end), and then quickly goes down to the very bottom of the page - to see “how it ended.”

Brain function when reading a website. Red shows the areas where the reader's attention lasts the longest. Yellow - quick viewing zones. Blue and gray areas are not readable at all.

And this is where MES lays a real time bomb. All Internet-dependent consumers of simplified information find even blog texts longer than three or four paragraphs too boring and difficult to understand, not to mention serious books. Thus, the would-be reformers from DogM are stopping the ability of the new generation of Muscovites (and after them they will try to spread the new system throughout Russia) to think logically and critically evaluate what they see and read, reducing the work of their brain to “not mastered - a lot of bukuff”. Even people with (in the past) good reading skills notice that after a whole day of surfing the Internet and maneuvering through dozens and hundreds of emails, they physically cannot begin even a very interesting book, since reading just the first page turns into real torture. Try repeating their experience to see for yourself.

This was not just a lyrical digression, but the most important well-known facts that our officials and digital lobbyists continue to maliciously ignore. And parents continue to fight for the future of the country and insist on recognizing MES as an experimental project that requires the voluntary consent of students (for minors - the consent of their legal representatives). Each student should be given a choice - to study according to the MES, the traditional education system, or the traditional system with elements of new technologies. Accordingly, every Moscow school should be able to provide such an alternative. A comprehensive state examination of this educational technology is required with the involvement of experts from the Scientific Center for Children's Health of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and the Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology in Moscow, both short-term (1-2 years) and long-term (8-10 years). All technical regulations for MES equipment, as well as hygiene requirements, must be made publicly available.

One gets the impression that, under the guise of innovation and “keeping pace with the entire developed world,” outright sabotage and sabotage on a national scale are being committed. Public hearings on this topic should be held as soon as possible with the participation of the parent community and the expert community. The more platforms for discussion, round tables, and the more citizens who are informed about the situation in our education, the better. After all, this concerns the future of our people and state. This is a matter of national security, sovereignty, a strategic issue in every sense of the word.

The Moscow Electronic School platform was presented at the beginning of September 2016. She works in all metropolitan schools. Today we will look at exactly how it works, and most importantly, what advantages participants in the educational process now have.

What does the Moscow Electronic School consist of?

The main elements of the system are a library of electronic materials and an electronic journal and diary. The latter has been working for a long time, but thanks to the platform it has more capabilities.

What are the advantages?

Let's start with the obvious. Since textbooks are now stored electronically in the library, children do not have to carry heavy briefcases. Instead, you need to take a tablet. If you don’t have a gadget and don’t want to carry a textbook, you can print out the materials needed for a specific lesson.

In addition, it is not necessary to write down the homework assignment: it is displayed in the electronic diary. By the way, parents can log into their diary account from anywhere in Russia and the world - they just need to connect to the Internet. This is especially convenient on business trips. Everywhere you can see what grade the child received and what knowledge his bright head has been enriched with.

Library of electronic materials - what is it?

This is an electronic resource that stores not only textbooks and manuals, but also lesson scripts that have replaced lesson plans. They are similar to a presentation with visual materials and tasks. Teachers all over the city can borrow a suitable script from the library and use it. There is also a way to make adjustments to the finished material or create your own. In the latter case, teachers can make the script publicly available - they just need to send it for moderation.

This system allows all teachers in the city to exchange experiences and creates healthy competition between them. After all, any scenario can be evaluated, and the number of downloads of each material is also monitored. It should be noted that since the start of the project (September 2016), teachers have already created more than 3.5 thousand lesson scenarios for the library.

How does a child use the library?

Students download the uchebnik.mos.ru application to their tablet or computer. When the teacher starts a lesson, students automatically join his script. They can do this at home if, for example, they are sick, but do not want to miss classes. You can go into the script and repeat the topic after the lesson.

What has changed in the diary?

The electronic journal and diary are linked to the library. The diary displays the topic of the lesson. To do homework, the student simply needs to follow the link that leads to the required material in the library. Parents can also do this if they want to know what their children learned in the lesson.

Please note that any parent, thanks to an electronic journal (diary), can conduct correspondence with the teacher, which will not be visible to the child.

How do interactive whiteboards work?

This is a large touch screen with a diagonal of 84 inches. The boards are connected to the Internet and, naturally, to a library of electronic materials. The teacher controls the board directly by touching it or from his tablet. It launches a lesson scenario, and children, through the application, enter this scenario on their personal devices. By the way, the material in the script has three layers; they are similar, but not identical. The first is what's on the board. The second is on the teacher’s tablet (there may be additional comments there). And finally, the third is what's on the students' tablets. By the way, when a child watches the script at home, he has the opportunity to go to all layers, including the teacher’s layer.

Thanks to interactive whiteboards, teachers can present material in a colorful and creative way. Some subjects, such as stereometry, especially benefit from the ability to demonstrate three-dimensional images. Thanks to an Internet connection, you can quickly find anything - a law, a scientific article, a video, and so on.

You can draw on the board. Instead of chalk - a finger. Modern children, who are accustomed to gadgets, really like this. For example, when studying history, students come to the board and enjoy drawing trade routes or outlining the habitats of certain tribes.

Are tablets a mandatory element of the program?

No. The system is designed in such a way that tablets are not necessary: ​​children can look at the interactive whiteboard and work, and use traditional textbooks instead of a tablet. The tablet is just one of the tools; scripts work both with and without it. As mentioned, the script slides can be printed.

Who decides whether to use a tablet?

Family first.

Do parents buy it?

Some schools purchase some of the tablets. But mostly yes, parents. The good news is that the system connects tablets on any operating system - Windows, Android, iOS. Parents can select an available device. Technical parameters are not a fundamental point.

How are interactive whiteboards and tablets connected?

They are synchronized via the Internet at the database level. This is a Russian development. A role model has been built for each of the devices, and within its framework, the corresponding functionality is available within the running application. There is a single source of control - the teacher's tablet.

Communication also occurs through an electronic journal and diary. All children are assigned to a class. Let's assume that the lesson starts in the 5th B. The teacher selects a class and by default all students from the 5th B are connected. Thus, the children who have the application open become participants in the lesson.

Do you need the Internet all the time?

It depends on what for. To be present in the lesson scenario online - yes. And in the library, textbooks, manuals or script materials can be placed in your work area and read offline.

How will all this affect grades?

The system has been operating throughout the city only since 2016. But some schools started using it earlier. For example, at school No. 1995. In the past two years, according to the new scheme, three subjects were taught there - biology, history and chemistry. Academic achievement (that is, the number of grades 4 and 5) increased: in biology - by 12 percent, in history - by 15 percent, in chemistry - by 10 percent.