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A Systems Approach to Pedagogical Policies
Why pedagogy isn't just a result of the teacher, students or curriculum, but the system within which we teach and the trade-offs we want to accept.
#UKEd #Systemsteaching
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A Systems Approach to Pedagogical Policies
Why pedagogy isn't just a result of the teacher, students or curriculum, but the system within which we teach and the trade-offs we want to accept.
#UKEd #Systemsteaching
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November 12, 2023 at 10:09 AM
January 8, 2024 at 9:39 PM
Apparently not the standard educogsci light read. But I’m excited. #SystemsTeaching #CyberneticLeadership
December 6, 2023 at 7:24 PM
Apparently not the standard educogsci light read. But I’m excited. #SystemsTeaching #CyberneticLeadership
This is an fantastic post, and an excellent application of Ashby's law of requisite variety (from systems theory).
#SystemsTeaching
#SystemsTeaching
June 8, 2025 at 9:02 AM
This is an fantastic post, and an excellent application of Ashby's law of requisite variety (from systems theory).
#SystemsTeaching
#SystemsTeaching
I made a new stock and flow diagram to go with my lesson on leaf structure. What do you all think?
#SystemsTeaching #iTeachBio
#SystemsTeaching #iTeachBio
January 10, 2024 at 9:43 AM
I made a new stock and flow diagram to go with my lesson on leaf structure. What do you all think?
#SystemsTeaching #iTeachBio
#SystemsTeaching #iTeachBio
Current mood—we need to advance towards 2⃣.
1⃣ Students as information processors. Teachers as info givers. Schools as optimisation centers.
2⃣ Students as autonomous organisms. Teachers as prompters to perceive & act on info. Schools as developmental systems.
#EduSky #UKEd #SystemsTeaching
1⃣ Students as information processors. Teachers as info givers. Schools as optimisation centers.
2⃣ Students as autonomous organisms. Teachers as prompters to perceive & act on info. Schools as developmental systems.
#EduSky #UKEd #SystemsTeaching
June 9, 2024 at 10:55 AM
Current mood—we need to advance towards 2⃣.
1⃣ Students as information processors. Teachers as info givers. Schools as optimisation centers.
2⃣ Students as autonomous organisms. Teachers as prompters to perceive & act on info. Schools as developmental systems.
#EduSky #UKEd #SystemsTeaching
1⃣ Students as information processors. Teachers as info givers. Schools as optimisation centers.
2⃣ Students as autonomous organisms. Teachers as prompters to perceive & act on info. Schools as developmental systems.
#EduSky #UKEd #SystemsTeaching
Working on some more #SystemsTeaching models.
This time, a draft model of the adaptive immune system.
#iTeachBio #EduSky
This time, a draft model of the adaptive immune system.
#iTeachBio #EduSky
December 18, 2023 at 4:15 PM
Working on some more #SystemsTeaching models.
This time, a draft model of the adaptive immune system.
#iTeachBio #EduSky
This time, a draft model of the adaptive immune system.
#iTeachBio #EduSky
Four lessons for teaching diffusion to my Year 10 Biology students. I designed some simple models to match the deep concepts. Students really struggle with the idea of a concentration "gradient" as a cause of diffusion.
#SciTeachUK #SystemsTeaching
#SciTeachUK #SystemsTeaching
December 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Four lessons for teaching diffusion to my Year 10 Biology students. I designed some simple models to match the deep concepts. Students really struggle with the idea of a concentration "gradient" as a cause of diffusion.
#SciTeachUK #SystemsTeaching
#SciTeachUK #SystemsTeaching
Yesterday was a stock and flow diagram for limiting factors of photosynthesis:
#SystemsTeaching #iTeachBio
#SystemsTeaching #iTeachBio
February 3, 2024 at 6:37 AM
Yesterday was a stock and flow diagram for limiting factors of photosynthesis:
#SystemsTeaching #iTeachBio
#SystemsTeaching #iTeachBio
Really happy with how my transpiration model came out today with my IB bio students. Adding concrete elements, such as the lead in the background, tends to help students locate aspects.
#SciTeachUK #SystemsTeaching
#SciTeachUK #SystemsTeaching
December 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Really happy with how my transpiration model came out today with my IB bio students. Adding concrete elements, such as the lead in the background, tends to help students locate aspects.
#SciTeachUK #SystemsTeaching
#SciTeachUK #SystemsTeaching
First lesson of biology for my (Year 7) 11-year-olds:
♾️Autopoiesis.
Just dialogue and meaning-making.
#SystemsTeaching #iTeachBio
♾️Autopoiesis.
Just dialogue and meaning-making.
#SystemsTeaching #iTeachBio
December 14, 2023 at 2:43 PM
First lesson of biology for my (Year 7) 11-year-olds:
♾️Autopoiesis.
Just dialogue and meaning-making.
#SystemsTeaching #iTeachBio
♾️Autopoiesis.
Just dialogue and meaning-making.
#SystemsTeaching #iTeachBio
"Language is pickled epistemology"
Gregory Bateson, implying that we inherit a bunch of assumptions about the world embedded in our maternal language.
#EduSky #UKEd #SystemsTeaching
Gregory Bateson, implying that we inherit a bunch of assumptions about the world embedded in our maternal language.
#EduSky #UKEd #SystemsTeaching
February 18, 2024 at 9:04 AM
"Language is pickled epistemology"
Gregory Bateson, implying that we inherit a bunch of assumptions about the world embedded in our maternal language.
#EduSky #UKEd #SystemsTeaching
Gregory Bateson, implying that we inherit a bunch of assumptions about the world embedded in our maternal language.
#EduSky #UKEd #SystemsTeaching
Working on some more #SystemsTeaching models.
Here's a draft of one I'm developing for my 14-16 year olds.
#iTeachBio
Here's a draft of one I'm developing for my 14-16 year olds.
#iTeachBio
December 24, 2023 at 1:59 PM
Working on some more #SystemsTeaching models.
Here's a draft of one I'm developing for my 14-16 year olds.
#iTeachBio
Here's a draft of one I'm developing for my 14-16 year olds.
#iTeachBio
As part of preparing a lesson on respiration, I drafted this model diagram.
I'm wondering if I chose the right processes for the 'taps'.
#SystemsTeaching
I'm wondering if I chose the right processes for the 'taps'.
#SystemsTeaching
January 1, 2024 at 5:51 PM
As part of preparing a lesson on respiration, I drafted this model diagram.
I'm wondering if I chose the right processes for the 'taps'.
#SystemsTeaching
I'm wondering if I chose the right processes for the 'taps'.
#SystemsTeaching
"But to a biologist the brain is not a thinking machine, it is an acting machine; it gets information and then does something about it"
Ross Ashby 1948
#SystemsTeaching #UKEd #EduSky
Ross Ashby 1948
#SystemsTeaching #UKEd #EduSky
February 1, 2024 at 5:01 AM
"But to a biologist the brain is not a thinking machine, it is an acting machine; it gets information and then does something about it"
Ross Ashby 1948
#SystemsTeaching #UKEd #EduSky
Ross Ashby 1948
#SystemsTeaching #UKEd #EduSky
#EduSky
In the hope of creating a community of teachers who teach about systems thinking, either directly or in the context of their subjects (biology, geography, etc), I've created a new feed:
#SystemsTeaching
Follow the feed, and tag your #SystemsTeaching posts
In the hope of creating a community of teachers who teach about systems thinking, either directly or in the context of their subjects (biology, geography, etc), I've created a new feed:
#SystemsTeaching
Follow the feed, and tag your #SystemsTeaching posts
October 21, 2023 at 5:35 AM
#EduSky
In the hope of creating a community of teachers who teach about systems thinking, either directly or in the context of their subjects (biology, geography, etc), I've created a new feed:
#SystemsTeaching
Follow the feed, and tag your #SystemsTeaching posts
In the hope of creating a community of teachers who teach about systems thinking, either directly or in the context of their subjects (biology, geography, etc), I've created a new feed:
#SystemsTeaching
Follow the feed, and tag your #SystemsTeaching posts
"Scientific knowledge is not the exhibition of the nature of reality as it is in itself; it is an expression of the relation between our embodied cognition and the world that it purports to know"
Evan Thompson 2016
#SystemsTeaching #EduSky
Evan Thompson 2016
#SystemsTeaching #EduSky
April 1, 2024 at 7:30 AM
"Scientific knowledge is not the exhibition of the nature of reality as it is in itself; it is an expression of the relation between our embodied cognition and the world that it purports to know"
Evan Thompson 2016
#SystemsTeaching #EduSky
Evan Thompson 2016
#SystemsTeaching #EduSky
December 24, 2023 at 1:50 PM
Meaning can't be passed to people like stuff in a parcel. Information can't enter a student's brain, be processed, & stored as is. Instead, when students perceive something new, they must make sense of it with reference to their own (inaccessible) network of understandings.
#SystemsTeaching #EduSKy
#SystemsTeaching #EduSKy
March 10, 2024 at 11:09 AM
Meaning can't be passed to people like stuff in a parcel. Information can't enter a student's brain, be processed, & stored as is. Instead, when students perceive something new, they must make sense of it with reference to their own (inaccessible) network of understandings.
#SystemsTeaching #EduSKy
#SystemsTeaching #EduSKy
New Year's eve #SystemsTeaching model.
This time a stock and flow diagram I've designed of anthropogenic extinction
#iTeachBio #UKEd
This time a stock and flow diagram I've designed of anthropogenic extinction
#iTeachBio #UKEd
December 31, 2023 at 4:18 PM
New Year's eve #SystemsTeaching model.
This time a stock and flow diagram I've designed of anthropogenic extinction
#iTeachBio #UKEd
This time a stock and flow diagram I've designed of anthropogenic extinction
#iTeachBio #UKEd
I've been working on a model for teaching transpiration to students aged 16-18. Here's where I've got so far:
#SystemsTeaching #iTeachBio
#SystemsTeaching #iTeachBio
March 22, 2024 at 5:51 AM
I've been working on a model for teaching transpiration to students aged 16-18. Here's where I've got so far:
#SystemsTeaching #iTeachBio
#SystemsTeaching #iTeachBio
*Update*
First draft complete of:
"Difference Maker: Enacting Systems Theory in Biology Teaching"
With (currently) an appendix of over 40 stock and flow models that I've designed, and exactly how I've used them in the classroom.
#SystemsTeaching #iTeachBio #UKEd
First draft complete of:
"Difference Maker: Enacting Systems Theory in Biology Teaching"
With (currently) an appendix of over 40 stock and flow models that I've designed, and exactly how I've used them in the classroom.
#SystemsTeaching #iTeachBio #UKEd
March 22, 2024 at 5:50 AM
*Update*
First draft complete of:
"Difference Maker: Enacting Systems Theory in Biology Teaching"
With (currently) an appendix of over 40 stock and flow models that I've designed, and exactly how I've used them in the classroom.
#SystemsTeaching #iTeachBio #UKEd
First draft complete of:
"Difference Maker: Enacting Systems Theory in Biology Teaching"
With (currently) an appendix of over 40 stock and flow models that I've designed, and exactly how I've used them in the classroom.
#SystemsTeaching #iTeachBio #UKEd
Yesteday's model was a stock and flow diagram of the mechanism of photoperiodism in plants (for measuring day length). The diagram really helped students understand what is typically a difficult concept.
#SystemsTeaching #iTeachBio
#SystemsTeaching #iTeachBio
January 19, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Yesteday's model was a stock and flow diagram of the mechanism of photoperiodism in plants (for measuring day length). The diagram really helped students understand what is typically a difficult concept.
#SystemsTeaching #iTeachBio
#SystemsTeaching #iTeachBio
***New Post***
A Systems Approach to Pedagogical Policies
Why pedagogy isn't just a result of the teacher, students or curriculum, but the system within which we teach and the trade-offs we want to accept.
#UKEd #Systemsteaching
musingsofadr.wordpress.com/2023/11/11/a...
A Systems Approach to Pedagogical Policies
Why pedagogy isn't just a result of the teacher, students or curriculum, but the system within which we teach and the trade-offs we want to accept.
#UKEd #Systemsteaching
musingsofadr.wordpress.com/2023/11/11/a...
November 11, 2023 at 8:53 AM
***New Post***
A Systems Approach to Pedagogical Policies
Why pedagogy isn't just a result of the teacher, students or curriculum, but the system within which we teach and the trade-offs we want to accept.
#UKEd #Systemsteaching
musingsofadr.wordpress.com/2023/11/11/a...
A Systems Approach to Pedagogical Policies
Why pedagogy isn't just a result of the teacher, students or curriculum, but the system within which we teach and the trade-offs we want to accept.
#UKEd #Systemsteaching
musingsofadr.wordpress.com/2023/11/11/a...
Science comes from the Indo-European "ski"—to separate, to draw distinctions.
System comes from the Indo-European "sym"—to integrate, to bring together.
They complement each other, something systemicists strive for.
Heinz von Foerster
#SystemsTeaching #EduSky #UKEd
System comes from the Indo-European "sym"—to integrate, to bring together.
They complement each other, something systemicists strive for.
Heinz von Foerster
#SystemsTeaching #EduSky #UKEd
February 19, 2024 at 6:32 AM
Science comes from the Indo-European "ski"—to separate, to draw distinctions.
System comes from the Indo-European "sym"—to integrate, to bring together.
They complement each other, something systemicists strive for.
Heinz von Foerster
#SystemsTeaching #EduSky #UKEd
System comes from the Indo-European "sym"—to integrate, to bring together.
They complement each other, something systemicists strive for.
Heinz von Foerster
#SystemsTeaching #EduSky #UKEd