Subject: Carrying Capacity 2

Posted by Richard Turnock on 11/18/2010
In Reply To:Carrying Capacity 2 Posted by Chad Green on 11/16/2010

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Following up on Chad Green’s beautiful story of changing labels.

....education system – what we have now.
...learning system – the goal.
If the goal is a learning system.
Can we visualize attaining a learning system and what it would look like in practice?
Can we identify the assumptions about the learning system and question those assumptions?
Can we determine the interconnected parts of the learning system?
Can we define the process for implementing and maintaining the interconnected parts of the learning system?

Using Barry Richmond’s description of system dynamics:
1. An education system uses linear, laundry list thinking instead of circular closed-loop view of causality that we want in a learning system An education system is a static view of learning. A learning system has a dynamic orientation so that we can understand how learning changes over time.
2. An education system focuses on external issues. A learning system has an internal focus on performance.
3. An education system uses methods based on statistical correlation of trends from the past. A learning system focuses on an operational view of how things actually work.

Richard