Tes - The Education Podcast

The data revolution is here, and it’s taking place in schools just as much as elsewhere. Leaders and teachers are now increasingly able to view data in real time, be it on attendance, behaviour or safeguarding.But how does this actually work in practice, what impact can it have on young people’s learning? There are myriad tools available now, with applications varying from in-class uses - such as live learning games where teachers can get real-time feedback on students’ responses - to analytics, helping staff to explore performance on assessments at a previously unimaginable level. There are also many behaviour-related uses, explains Winston Poyton, a senior product director at IRIS Software. Speaking in the latest Tes podcast, he says these can have a powerful impact on young people.     “There are a lot of apps out there that can track students’ behaviour and allow teachers to comment,” he says. “That comment then passes to the next lesson that the student turns up to, and the