Summary of my presentation at the Directors of Improvement conference today.

(Strap in, it's a bit of a beast)

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Gu’s work is not widely translated. He speaks no English. The Chinese tradition of sameness against a background of variation is rooted in Confucian Heritage Culture.

Off to an interesting start in Anil Seth's Being You: A New Science of Consciousness, page 17 with its initial consideration of 'information processing'.

I'm increasingly convinced that the #VariationTheory of learning is one of the most important theories for secondary teachers to understand. It ain't just another trick to add to the bag—it's a powerful theory to think with

You'll see why in my forthcoming book: Difference Maker

So, one way of defining knowledge is that it is inversely proportional to surprise (Mobus and Kalton 2015).
The less surprised you are by new events, the more you know. And the more you know, the less information any message contains for you.

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Information Theory

—Pioneered by Claude Shannon in the 1940s—

Gave interesting insights into communication and knowledge that would revolutionise many scientific fields, including systems theory.

Here's what could be inferred on knowledge⤵️🧵

Jo Goodman If a school is a complex system - presumably a complex adaptive system, is there not a problem with leaders working to make all the decisions? They will never have a detailed understanding to make such decisions by themselves. The model seems quite linear given you're identifying

Well … I can’t disagree with this! 👇🏽Teachers of Maths The Mathematical Association MEI The NCETM Helen Drury Richard Perring but what does it mean to understand the theory? Interested to know how others understand variation theory and pedagogy.

I'm increasingly convinced that the #VariationTheory of learning is one of the most important theories for secondary teachers to understand. It ain't just another trick to add to the bag—it's a powerful theory to think with

You'll see why in my forthcoming book: Difference Maker

Last week some people pointed out how many of my post were obvious to them. But the more I dig into educational research, the less obvious is everything to me. I am becoming increasingly interested in 'nuance-based learning'. Every idea that is worth my attention is nuanced.