How can Learning Analytics improve education?

A common trend for the netgen is learning analytics. Learning analytics is basicly observing data about students performance in school and using that to predict how they will do in the future. One major thing that leraning analytics leads to is customization, or forming a learning method around the student so they can ultimately learn better. Customization is a major step up in teaching. By looking at students past results, teachers can formulate the best way to teach the student. For example, if a teacher finds that most of the kids in a class react better and work better when the teacher shows them things rather than tells them how to do them, she might conclude that the majority of the class are visual learners. She could then customize how she teaches around the students, and might involve more visual things so they can learn better. Schools use learning analytics all the time. Our school, Pleasant Plains is an example! According to https://sites.google.com/site/week12socialanalytics/learning-analytics , schools can " measure overall performance through students’ performance on state standardized tests." We take standardized tests all the time. We take the ISAT, Explore, and PLAN. Teachers use the information and scores from those tests to figure out what the best way to teach us is. So, Pleasant Plains is just one of many schools that uses learning analytics to improve education!