| Road Maps: Part 10, A Guide to Learning System Dynamics |
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From SDEP. Part 10 in the series of 9. This includes all the documents that you could not find elsewhere. |
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| Road Maps: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, and Part 9: A Guide to Learning System Dynamics |
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Author(s):
System Dynamics in Education Project |
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Road Maps |
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From SDEP. A self-teaching guide to the field of system dynamics, put together by the undergraduate group under Jay Forrester at MIT. All parts of the Road Maps series are available both on the Internet and on disk except for "Systems 1," a booklet necess |
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| Road Maps: Part 1, A Guide to Learning System Dynamics (D-4311-2) |
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Author(s):
System Dynamics in Education Project |
Subject:
Road Maps |
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From SDEP. Part 1 in a series of 9. A short collection of readings that introduce a novice to system dynamics. The packet includes: a) Systems 1: An Introduction to Systems Thinking (D. Kauffman): An excellent introduction to system dynamics, including fe |
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| Quality and System Dynamics/Systems Thinking: Integrating Them in a Middle School |
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Author(s):
Joan Yates |
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Project Histories |
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From Catalina Foothills School District. Staff members at Orange Grove Middle School in Tucson, AZ, have been integrating some of the key practices and principles of total quality, system dynamics, and systems thinking within their school for the past sev |
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| Problems with Causal-Loop Diagrams (D-3312-1) |
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Author(s):
George P. Richardson |
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System Dynamics |
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A discussion of the difficulties in the traditional definitions of positive and negative links in causal-loop diagrams. Possible improvements are suggested. From Road Maps 4. |
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| Problems in Causal Loop Diagrams Revisited |
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Author(s):
George P. Richardson |
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System Dynamics |
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A discussion of the discrepancies which can result from the S (Same) and O (Opposite) notation commonly used to label links in word-and-arrow diagrams. |
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| Pre-College Student Understanding of Accumulations: An Experiment at a WPI Summer Workshop for Students |
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Diana Fisher, Chris DiCarlo, Alan Ticotsky, & Rob Quaden |
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System Dynamics |
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This paper presents the results of a pre- and post-test assessment given to 18 students ages 14 to 17 years who participated in a WPI Sustainability Workshop in the summer of 2014, where systems thinking and system dynamics modeling were the primary tools used to study environmental issues. The pre- and post-test were designed to assess the students' ability to determine simple dynamic behavior of phenomenon when the rate of change of the phenomenon was given in text, pictorial, or graphical form. The assessment determined that students have a reasonably robust intuitive ability to determine simple dynamic behavior from text and pictorial descriptions but not from graphical descriptions. |
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| Packaged Simulators and Simulation-Based Learning Environments: An Alternative to Model-Building That Can Expand the Audience for System Dynamics |
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Author(s):
Gary B. Hirsch |
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Cross-Curricular |
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Requiring people to build models may limit the audience for system dynamics. Packaged Simulators and Simulation-Based Learning Environments are an alternative that can convey an essenial understanding of sysems without requiring prerequisite skills. |
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| Notes on history and future of system dynamics in K-12 education (D-4897) |
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Author(s):
Jay W. Forrester |
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System Dynamics |
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With these notes, Jay Forrester hopes to encourage discussion about participating in a daring, difficult, but highly promising kind of K-12 education that is radically different from what is now common. |
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| MUSINGS ON SOCIAL STUDIES AND SYSTEM DYNAMICS: Thinking Systemically |
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Jeff Potash, & John Heinbokel |
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Social Studies |
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This second article poses the question, "How can we effectively use system dynamics to build social studies curricula to meet those two goals?" These ideas have evolved over years of working with students, most recently with Rob Skiff within the middle- |
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