Home | The Creativity Post Systemic Intervention Principles cf.: Stage Appropriate Support & Interventions A Systemic Perspective represents the ability to understand and articulate the core principles of the system that govern the set of interactions being observed. This knowledge is then used to inform choices regarding participation/ intervention in the group/community context. This includes: An awareness of the interrelatedness of self in systems. The “objective observer” is a mythAn awareness of the interactional patterns that define the system.An ability to effectively engages/manages the inherent polarities and their accompanying tensions found in living systems.Your capacity to assess the overall health of the system and design effective intervention strategies aimed at maintaining or returning the system to health. Note: You MUST have a clear picture of what a ‘healthy’ organization looks like. Because everything is related…
Universal Intellectual Standards by Linda Elder and Richard Paul Universal intellectual standards are standards which must be applied to thinking whenever one is interested in checking the quality of reasoning about a problem, issue, or situation. To think critically entails having command of these standards. To help students learn them, teachers should pose questions which probe student thinking; questions which hold students accountable for their thinking; questions which, through consistent use by the teacher in the classroom, become internalized by students as questions they need to ask themselves. The ultimate goal, then, is for these questions to become infused in the thinking of students, forming part of their inner voice, which then guides them to better and better reasoning. CLARITY: Could you elaborate further on that point? PRECISION: Could you give more details? DEPTH: How does your answer address the complexities in the question? BREADTH: Do we need to consider another point of view?
Critical Thinking Guide Critical thinking is a skill, so develop the following habits to help develop your critical thinking skills: Check the requirements of your courses What are the lecturers' expectations of their students? Read strategically Look at the title, abstract, summary, introduction, and conclusion of your readings to decide whether you need to read all of the text, only some of it, or whether you can skip it altogether. Make notes as you read Make notes as you read, using your own words. Work with classmates to discuss ideas You should always write your own assignments, but you can improve your understanding by discussing ideas and information with your peers and your tutors. Write regularly about your own ideas Write regularly about your own ideas, thoughts and feelings on a topic. Find your voice Express your ideas and do not be afraid to take risks.
The 10 habits of highly creative people, applied to creative companies « Marketing Babylon The book Creativity : Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention (previously titled: Creativity: The Work and Lives of 91 Eminent People) contains an exploration of the common personality traits of creative people. The traits are articulated as a series of ten paradoxes. Before listing them, he writes: Of all human activities, creativity comes closest to providing the fulfillment we all hope to get in our lives. Call it full-blast living. You’ve got to love the man, I’m sure he’d be against speculative work and 6-way creative pitches. The list itself is delightful on its own, and will feel intuitively familiar to anyone who has an appreciation for creativity and creative people. So here are Csikszentmihalyi’s Ten paradoxical traits of the creative personality, translated to the the traits of creative companies. 1. Creative companies balance a great capacity for doing and action with time for focus, reflection and a healthy work-life balance. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Systems Theory/Cybernetics What is Cybernetics?[edit] There are many different definitions of Cybernetics and many individuals who have influenced the direction of Cybernetics. Cybernetics takes as its domain the discovery or design and application of principles of regulation and communication. Cybernetics treats ways of behaving and not things. Cybernetics does not ask "what is this thing?" History[edit] Deriving from the Greek word for steersman (kybernetes), Cybernetics was first introduced by the mathematician Wiener, as the science of communication and control in the animal and the machine (to which we now might add: in society and in individual human beings). Cybernetics and systems theory study basically the same problem, that of organization independent of the substrate in which it is embodied. Cybernetics Contributions[edit] Pillars of Cybernetics[edit] Cybernetics theories tend to rest on four basic pillars: circularity, variety, process and observation. Focus[edit] Resources and Further Reading[edit]
Designing Experiments Using the Scientific Method - dummies How do the scientists know what they know? When it comes to gathering information, scientists usually rely on the scientific method. The scientific method is a plan that is followed in performing a scientific experiment and writing up the results. As you’re about to see, the format of the scientific method is very logical. Hypothetically speaking When preparing to do research, a scientist must form a hypothesis, which is an educated guess about a particular problem or idea, and then work to support it and prove that it is correct, or refute it and prove that it is wrong. Whether the scientist is right or wrong is not as important as whether he or she sets up an experiment that can be repeated by other scientists, who expect to reach the same conclusion. The value of variables “Why is it useless,” you ask? Experiments must contain the following steps to be considered “good science.” 1. The data should be presented visually, if possible, such as through a graph or table. 2. 3. 4.
Critical Thinking Model 1 To Analyze Thinking We Must Identify and Question its Elemental Structures Standard: Clarityunderstandable, the meaning can be grasped Could you elaborate further? Could you give me an example? Could you illustrate what you mean? Standard: Accuracyfree from errors or distortions, true How could we check on that? Standard: Precisionexact to the necessary level of detail Could you be more specific? Standard: Relevancerelating to the matter at hand How does that relate to the problem? Standard: Depthcontaining complexities and multiple interrelationships What factors make this a difficult problem? Standard: Breadthencompassing multiple viewpoints Do we need to look at this from another perspective? Standard: Logicthe parts make sense together, no contradictions Does all this make sense together? Standard: Significancefocusing on the important, not trivial Is this the most important problem to consider? Standard: FairnessJustifiable, not self-serving or one-sided Think About... State the Question
Lateral thinking Lateral thinking is solving problems through an indirect and creative approach, using reasoning that is not immediately obvious and involving ideas that may not be obtainable by using only traditional step-by-step logic. The term was coined in 1967 by Edward de Bono. [1] According to de Bono, lateral thinking deliberately distances itself from standard perceptions of creativity as either "vertical" logic (the classic method for problem solving: working out the solution step-by-step from the given data) or "horizontal" imagination (having many ideas but being unconcerned with the detailed implementation of them). Methods[edit] Critical thinking is primarily concerned with judging the true value of statements and seeking errors. Random Entry Idea Generating Tool: The thinker chooses an object at random, or a noun from a dictionary, and associates it with the area they are thinking about. Challenge Idea Generating Tool: A tool which is designed to ask the question "Why?" See also[edit]
Systemic Thinking Systemic Thinking is a process of understanding and transforming complex situations - these may include water catchments, a client's market, manufacturing and external environment, projects etc. Systems thinking works through enabling all stakeholders to see their role, their responsibilities and the organisation's strategic imperatives as interdependent. A Systemic Thinking Map Purpose: A system can only be conceived when there is a clear articulation of an organisational purpose. Boundaries: As soon as a purpose has been expressed the boundaries of the system can be identified. Coherence: All the dynamics that exist within a system need to have a coherence (a sense of wholeness) if they are to be a legitimate part of that system. Emergence: A characteristic of systems is that the whole has characteristics that can not be identified from a study of the systems parts.
Exploring Potential and Kinetic Energy - WeAreTeachers During a physics unit, have students explore potential and kinetic energy with these five fun experiments that encourage problem solving and play. Balancing Lever Construct a lever that can be used as a balancing scale or a catapult! Materials: 4 plastic cups Ruler Straw Sturdy stick (could use a chopstick) Tape Instructions: 1. Insert stick inside of straw. 2. This experiment was inspired by Jameson’s Lab. Ramps, Angles and Measuring Integrate math and science by constructing ramps. Kids investigate how different angles can affect the speed and distance of a ball. Before you test out your ramps, have kids make a prediction. Have kids measure the distance produced by each ramp (standard or nonstandard, depending on age group). Let’s Swing Explore forces and motion by creating a simple machine to demonstrate energy transfer. Energy Transfer To help kids understand energy transfer, conduct this simple experiment that demonstrates potential energy (stored) and kinetic energy (moving). 1.
Teaching Information Literacy Now Last week, a new study from Stanford University revealed that many students are inept at discerning fact from opinion when reading articles online. The report, combined with the spike in fake and misleading news during the 2016 election, has school librarians, including me, rethinking how we teach evaluation of online sources to our students. How can we educate our students to evaluate the information they find online when so many adults are sharing inaccurate articles on social media? While social media isn’t the only reason for the surge in fake news over the last 10 years, it’s certainly making it harder for information consumers of every age to sort through fact and fiction. Until now, I have taught web evaluation the same way every year: I start by introducing students to the CARS method of web evaluation (similar to the CRAAP test), using tools to evaluate credibility, accuracy, reasonableness, and factual support. Rethinking how we teach evaluation Read laterally. Switch it up.
Ways not to kill classroom creativity Eleven Classroom Creativity Killers Marvin Bartel - © 2001, updated Apri 3, 2013 ". . creativity scores had been steadily rising. . .until 1990. Since then, creativity scores have consistently inched downward." from: Bronson, Po & Merryman, Ashley. "The Creativity Crisis." PROLOG: Many teachers still assume that creativity is innate and random. Before the industrial revolution, work and creativity was woven into the fabric of everyday life. Will universal pubic schools fade away like shop classes at the end of industrial life, or will they transform themselves into a new life form to meet new needs? #1. Real artwork is based on the child's own experience, memory, observation, and/or imagination. # 2. What is fair? When grading is needed in art, it is only fair that we have a way to measure and achnowledge new learning. # 3. How can I encourage more imagination, better observation, and expressing what is remembered? We all know that a heart stands for love. # 4. # 5. # 6. # 7. # 8.