Learning about place and scale 42. The Rules of Predicting Some people, in some conditions, are good at the prediction game. I will pick out a few lessons under two headings: the people and the process.
Learning about place and scale 41. Can we predict? Can we predict? What are the rules of predicting? How do we know whether something is true?
Learning about place and scale 40. Decisions, decisions… Being clearer about the decisions we make, finding out if those decisions helped us get to where we wanted to go, and using the learning to make better decisions in the future. Is this core to how we want to think about learning?
Learning about place and scale 39. What the Machine Tells us About How Humans Might Learn In Era 3. What do we mean by data? What do we mean by outcomes? What do we mean change and change mechanism?
Learning about place and scale 38. Understanding Change Over Time To me, the machine is able to analyse the world as it is. Not a world with linear progression from bad to good on a single variable, but a world where some things are good, somethings are bad, and there is a lot of fluctuation from one moment to another.
Learning about place and scale 37. The Machine Sheds Light on Context The machine was picking up on context not directly relevant to the therapy that strongly influenced the young person’s progress. Some examples.
Learning about place and scale 36. Natural Language Processing I want to draw out what the machine says about how we learn.
Learning about place and scale 35. Machine Learning The machine will see things we don’t see. We will see things the machine doesn’t see. Ergo. Let’s make friends with a machine.
Learning about place and scale 34. An Era 3 Question When I was studying evidence based programmes, I kept coming across an interesting phenomenon.
Learning about place and scale 33. Functional Family Therapy and Care4 This bit of the conversation is about the transition from Era 2 to Era 3, and how machine learning helps us to think about that transition.
Learning about place and scale 32. The Problem with Era 2 So what are the gaps (not just in Rutter’s work but in all era 2 work of this type)?
Learning about place and scale 31. The Analysis of Impact Arguably the strongest contribution of this new way of thinking, this second era thinking, was in the analysis of impact.
Learning about place and scale 30. A World That Agrees on Definition When we agree on the definition we can begin to understand cause.
Learning about place and scale 29. Rutter Shines a Light The starting point is epidemiology, the study of disease, its origins and sequelae.
Learning about place and scale 28. Era One Problems of Definition One boy says to the other, ‘what are you in for then?’, generating the reply, ‘I don’t know, I haven’t got any problems’. To which the more experienced resident says, ‘Well you better get some quick otherwise you will never get out of here’.
Learning about place and scale 26. Everything is different now, everything is the same Charles Booth drew the poverty maps of London, a detailed house by house assessment, marking the map of the most impoverished in black and the most wealthy in yellow.
Learning about place and scale 25. Old wine, new bottles We sit at a meeting and when somebody says ‘placed based system reform’ we all nod our heads as if we have a shared understanding of what that means. We don’t.
Learning about place and scale 24. Settlements of University Men In Great Towns The settlement movement is the embodiment of place based work, fitting exactly with the definition proposed at the February meeting.
Learning about place and scale 23. Where is this conversation going? We began this series of meetings without a specific goal. Our interest is in how we learn. We are using place and scale as exemplars.
Learning about place and scale 22. Changing the Way We Think About Outcome A child measures positive for a conduct disorder. Mark it 1. A child is dyslexic. Another 1. An addict. 1. A homeless person. A lonely person. Each a 1.
Learning about place and scale 21. Five Ways of Thinking About Place Does place mean anything you want it to mean?
Learning about place and scale 20. Place (Context) is Amenable to Change Individual risks are still important but Pinker's work encourages the tending of the space around the individual. Here are some examples of the idea in action.
Learning about place and scale 19. Pinker and Place The story told by Pinker is interesting in its own right. But what does it have to do with the way we learn, or how we think about place and scale?