DialogueMapping : Message: Critical & Systems Thinking [link overload]

Gregory -
Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I'm also interested in this topic of critical thinking, which I see as closely related with systems thinking. One of the primary questions I'm focusing on is: How can critical/systems thinking help us get better at recognizing and accepting innovation?

Appreciatively,
Karl
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Karl Hebenstreit, Jr.
US General Services Administration
Office of the Chief Acquisition Officer

MS, Organizational Learning, 2005
George Mason University
E-mail: karlhjr@...
website: http://odkm.gmu.edu

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NOTE: One member of my cohort at GMU asked me to put the [link overload] tag in the subject line on messages like this.

Simon, Al, and Maarten (principal developers of Compendium) have done extensive research
http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/sbs/
http://www.compendiuminstitute.com/library/papers.htm
http://www.compendiuminstitute.com/library/casestudies.htm

Argumentation: The Study of Effective Reasoning, 2nd Edition
http://www.teach12.com/ttcx/coursedesclong2.aspx?cid=4294&pc=Search

Systems Thinker
http://www.thesystemsthinker.com/

Global Business Network: Developing and Using Scenarios
http://gbn.org

System Dynamics and Energy Modeling
http://www.systemdynamics.org/DL-IntroSysDyn/inside.htm
Bibliography for System Dynamics and Energy Modeling
http://www.systemdynamics.org/DL-IntroSysDyn/energy-b.htm

Shaping the Next One Hundred Years: New Methods for Quantitative, Long-Term Policy Analysis
http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1626/
http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1626/MR1626.sup.pdf

At the Gaia Theory conference last year, one of the vendors was the Millenium Instittute, has developed systems modeling software which could be interesting to use after your students complete their assignments.
http://www.gaiatheory.org/
http://www.millennium-institute.org/projects/na/aspo.html

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To: vims@yahoogroups.com
From: "gregory.louie" <gregory.louie@...>
Sent by: vims@yahoogroups.com
Date: 10/19/2007 11:17AM
Subject: [vims] Re: VizThink
Hi folks, Has anyone in our yahoo groups produced a bibliography of research that supports the use of argumentation mapping to foster critical thinking? I would like to experiment with the use of Compendium with a group of middle school academically and intellectually gifted students mapping the impact of fossil fuel consumption on tensions in the Middle East and global warming. I'll want to hook up with an educational researcher interested in this type of cognitive accelerant. In response to the vizthink post, I found myself surfing around Robert Horn's website when I came across a .pdf file with the following claim: Claim. Research is finding that a semester's practice in doing argumentation mapping is the best way to teach critical thinking. That is work being done by Professor Tim van Gelder of the University of Melbourne. He is finding that students who practice argumentation mapping for a semester gain twice as much in critical thinking skills as those gained in 3 years of undergraduate education. Method. What was his method? Van Gelder says: "First students every semester are pre- and post-tested ...using two different tests - one the California Critical Thinking Skills Test and the other a written test of our own devising, much like the Graduate Record Exam Writing Assessment, and graded blindly by two independent scorers." Results. "In the most recent study...students showed gains in critical thinking across both tests of almost one standard deviation, " van Gelder reports. Interpretation. "This is about 4 times the expected gain for standard critical thinking courses, and almost twice the gain in critical thinking for three years of undergraduate education." This is just the kind of research that I would be interested in. Sincerely, Gregory Louie Biotechnology Teacher Gravelly Middle School --- In vims@yahoogroups.com, "karenostorer" <karenostorer@...> wrote: > > As fellow "visual thinkers" you might be interested in knowing about > the VizThink conference coming up in January in San Francisco. Many > contemporary visual thinking pioneers will be there as invited > "facilitators" (they're not "presenting"!). > > Here are just a few of the facilitators: > Robert Horn, author of Visual Language: Global Communication for the > 21st Century > Dave Gray, founder of Xplane > David Sibbet, founder of Grove Consultants > Nigel Holmes, former graphics director of Time magazine > Scott McCloud, author of Understanding Comics > > This conference is sure to be visually and intellectually stimulating! > Early registration discounts end October 24. For more detail, see the > VizThink conference website,http://vizthink.com/> > Karen Bennett > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vims/<*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vims/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:vims-digest@yahoogroups.com mailto:vims-fullfeatured@yahoogroups.com<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: vims-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

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