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Stadler: Systems Thinking the Means to Understanding Complexity

For Students 9th - 10th
An article by Alexender Wenk who is Head Of Logistics at Stadler Rail. The focus is on business management approaches and how we need to incorporate systems thinking in order to successfully deal with all the complexities and challenges...
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Peter Kang: Reflecting on the 11 Laws of the Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge

For Students 9th - 10th
The author discusses how he and his partner have applied the laws of systems thinking outlined by Peter Senge over the 13 years since they started their digital agency business. He describes the things that worked and those that didn't....
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Article
Harvard University

The Harvard Gazette: Trailblazing Initiative Marries Ethics, Tech

For Students 9th - 10th
First in a four-part series that taps the expertise of the Harvard community to examine the promise and potential pitfalls of the rising age of artificial intelligence and machine learning, and how to humanize it. Students are asked to...
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Education Services Australia: Digital Technologies Hub: Systems Thinking and Ai Applications

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson takes a systems thinking approach to understanding the place of artificial intelligence (AI) as a component within solutions to real-world problems.
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Interaction Design Foundation: What Is a Wicked Problem and How Can You Solve It?

For Students 9th - 10th
Have you ever come across a problem so complex that you struggled to know where to start? Then you have stumbled upon a wicked problem. While these problems may not have a definite solution, there are certainly things you can do to...
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Aventis Learning Group: Systems Thinking: The What, Why, When and How

For Students 9th - 10th
Systems thinking is a holistic approach to analysis that focuses on the way that a system's constituent parts interrelate and how systems work over time and within the context of larger systems. It is particularly useful in addressing...
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TryEngineering

Try Engineering: Stop and Go

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson addresses how traffic is managed by the use of the traffic light. Student "engineers" work in teams to design a new traffic light system using new technology to meet the needs of society today.
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Sim Professional Development and Enterprise Learning: 3 Reasons Why Systems Thinking Is Important for Innovation

For Students 9th - 10th
In a world where interconnectedness and complexity hold sway, systems thinking offers a disciplined approach to make sense of the world and find innovative solutions to problems. How can a disciplined systems thinking approach lead...
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Luis E. Romero: Solving Complex Problems With the 11 Laws of Systems Thinking

For Students 9th - 10th
Systems thinking is the key to solving complex problems and achieving simplicity. Furthermore, by applying systems thinking to different situations, we also start to recognize the existence of universal patterns of behavior in business...
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Interaction Design Foundation: Complex Socio Technical Systems

For Students 9th - 10th
Complex socio-technical systems are intricate societal and global problems: challenges where designers strive to define human problems, understand the far-reaching implications of these and address them carefully. As they are hard to...
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Harvard University

Harvard Univ.: Project Zero: Agency by Design: Parts, Purposes, Complexities

For Students 6th - 8th
This thinking routine helps learners slow down and make careful, detailed observations by encouraging them to look beyond the obvious features of an object or system. This thinking routine helps stimulate curiosity, raises questions, and...
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Harvard University

Harvard University: Project Zero: Agency by Design: Parts, People, Interactions

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This thinking routine helps learners slow down and look closely at a system. In doing so, young people are able to situate objects within systems and recognize the various people who participate - directly or indirectly - within a...
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Harvard University

Harvard University: Project Zero: Agency by Design: Parts, Perspectives, Me

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This routine helps students explore complexity by encouraging them to look closely at the details of something, considering its various viewpoints, users, and stakeholders, and reflecting on their own connections and involvement with it.
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Harvard University

Harvard University: Project Zero: Agency by Design: Take Apart [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Mechanical dissections are a practice that allows learners to discover the often hidden design of objects and how the parts work together as a system.
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Harvard University

Harvard University: Project Zero: Agency by Design: Mapping Systems [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The practice of mapping allows learners to build and demonstrate their understanding of the parts, people, and interactions that comprise a given system.
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Critical Thinking Secrets: What Is Systems Thinking?

For Students 9th - 10th
There are various approaches to solving problems that require us to analyze and interpret data. However, complex problems can require different perspectives to work upon and different elements that altogether play a crucial role in...