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Lawrence Hrubes

How Measurement Fails Doctors and Teachers - The New York Times - 0 views

  • TWO of our most vital industries, health care and education, have become increasingly subjected to metrics and measurements. Of course, we need to hold professionals accountable. But the focus on numbers has gone too far. We’re hitting the targets, but missing the point.
  • We also need more research on quality measurement and comparing different patient populations. The only way to understand whether a high mortality rate, or dropout rate, represents poor performance is to adequately appreciate all of the factors that contribute to these outcomes — physical and mental, social and environmental — and adjust for them.
  • He developed what is known as Donabedian’s triad, which states that quality can be measured by looking at outcomes (how the subjects fared), processes (what was done) and structures (how the work was organized).
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  • “The secret of quality is love,” he said.
Lawrence Hrubes

How to Talk to Children About Terrorism - The New York Times - 0 views

  • French newspapers and TV shows have done stories and special issues on how to talk to kids about the attacks. I’ve been reading them avidly. Their advice springs straight from Françoise Dolto, the influential psychoanalyst who was the French equivalent of Dr. Spock: Be honest.
John Mikton

If This Doesn't Terrify You … Google's Computers OUTWIT Their Humans | Fluenc... - 0 views

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    Google no longer understands how its "deep learning" decision-making computer systems have made themselves so good at recognizing things in photos. This means the internet giant may need fewer experts in future as it can instead rely on its semi-autonomous, semi-smart machines to solve problems all on their own. The claims were made at the Machine Learning Conference in San Francisco on Friday by Google software engineer Quoc V. Le in a talk in which he outlined some of the ways the content-slurper is putting "deep learning" systems to work. (You find out more about machine learning, a computer science research topic, here [PDF].)
John Mikton

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    Google no longer understands how its "deep learning" decision-making computer systems have made themselves so good at recognizing things in photos. This means the internet giant may need fewer experts in future as it can instead rely on its semi-autonomous, semi-smart machines to solve problems all on their own. The claims were made at the Machine Learning Conference in San Francisco on Friday by Google software engineer Quoc V. Le in a talk in which he outlined some of the ways the content-slurper is putting "deep learning" systems to work. (You find out more about machine learning, a computer science research topic, here [PDF].)
John Mikton

Shadow a Student Challenge - 0 views

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    Just like it sounds, shadowing a student is the process of following a student to gain empathy and insight into their experience. Start by downloading our toolkit and e-mail templates to help guide you through the process.
Arnie Bieber

The Power of Mindset | School21C - 0 views

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    How we learn, think, are motivated, are creative, and how we as human beings develop and innovate, has been heavily researched at an accelerating pace over the past decade. The body of evidence about learning and motivation not only informs educators and parents about human behavior and development, but it also helps us reshape our approach to parenting and education.
Jaye Shaer

Getty Images now free to embed - 0 views

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    More and more digital content is free. How do owners maintain control?
Lawrence Hrubes

Students 'cannot multi-task with mobiles and study' - BBC News - 0 views

  • Researchers found that students sending and receiving messages while studying scored lower test results and were less effective at tasks such as note taking.The study examined how a generation of "voracious texters" might be affected by so many online distractions.It found that when students did not use mobiles, they were better at being able to recall information.
John Mikton

8 pieces of advice for thriving in a world of constant change | ideas.ted.com - 0 views

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    "8 PIECES OF ADVICE FOR THRIVING IN A WORLD OF CONSTANT CHANGE"
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