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Data Strategy, Roadmap, and New Value

Day Milovich
Aug 25, 2017 · 3 min read

Understanding how education can survive in after-social-media era.

Where are we now?

Most people respond, “The era of social media.”. No.

The era of social media is not over, but it has been too long, more than a decade. Not worth mentioning “now”.

What now happens: artificial intelligence (AI), quantum computing, blockchain, cryptocurrency BitCoin (BTC), intelligent robots, internet of things (IoT), big data, and learning machines.

In an affordable and pervasive region, smartphone evolution continues to occur. China and America have become one party. Internet monopoly, officially occurred since 5 months ago. Web 3.0, programming languages, and application platforms, are increasingly sophisticated.

You can read the latest developments, with Android apps like: News Republic, Appy Geek, and Medium.

Data can flood, but the ease of the Web 3.0 era facilitate people in learning a subject.

One can make a “roadmap”, a kind of syllabus, then look for the best material, to improve your own skills.

A new way of learning, like this, can only be done with the internet.

Likes or dislikes, the development of technology that is filling children’s education and will change human life. Data flooding must be faced.

Ironically, if a teacher (and parents) only recommend internet usage, but have no strategy to deal with it. Finally, preoccupied with the discourse of negative excess (as an innate risk of the internet), full of moral advice, and no acceleration (not just speed) in learning. They do not have a strategy for dealing with data!

The data, the smallest unit of information, is never in raw form. There is no raw data. Data always “becomes” (becoming) and “formed” (constructed).

In the midst of a flood of information, how can learning get better?

Create data strategies, learning roadmaps, and create new values. That’s my answer to that question.

In the midst of a flood of data, all we need is data strategy. What do you do with ebook collections? What are the hundreds of friends for you for? How do you treat YouTube with all channels and playlists?

Without a data strategy, what happens is, the fragile knowledge structure. Information equated with science, data equated with news, and news is considered as “truth”. People only consume information, fill their leisure time with self-consolation, and are shocked at the change.

After that, create a “roadmap” to learn about “this subject”. If I want to learn typography, what do I need to do? Provided the material “verified”, you can learn directly from the master, and master the subject in a short time.

The era after social media, more likely to create a new “value”, rather than just improving the old value.

The proof is like this. Many new jobs are emerging. Many old values, collapsed and replaced. And distrust of students on conventional learning methods. Teaching that tends to “look back” makes the class boring, let alone just to “fix” what comes from the past. There are still many such trends in school. Teaching is limited to transmitting ideas (not from the future, but from the past), transferring values (values, not test points) and traditions. Whatever the outcome of conventional methods like this, only based on the old values.

Too much time is required, if learning always begins by consuming information that comes from the past. It’s a hierarchical, teacher-centric type of teaching, because it uses an asymmetric information perspective.

Education is more fun if it is oriented on how to create new values, with students. Without new value, no significant change.

Every time I study with the students, I always ask 3 (three) of these questions.

What is your data strategy for this overwhelming flood of information? What is the roadmap we will take to learn this? What kind of value will be formed after this?

That is 3 (three) questions for teachers. They must also learn. At once a question to everyone, who dared to position themselves, as someone who continues to learn. : )

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Day Milovich

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Webmaster, artworker, writer, from Indonesia.

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