About
About this site
A working hub for research on systems thinking applied to teaching and learning — intended for educators and researchers.
What this is
This site collects three kinds of writing:
- Topic primers — short, opinionated orientations to thinkers and frameworks: cybernetics, Pask's Conversation Theory, Baldwin & Clark's design rules, Team-Based Learning, Christensen's value chain evolution, and others as they accrue.
- Notes — shorter posts: connections, applications, working hypotheses, things noticed in classrooms or in the literature.
- Pointers — references to sources, courses, or projects that have shaped the thinking here.
Editorial stance
All pages here are working drafts. A primer that holds up a year from now will look different than today's version. The goal is to make the structure of an idea visible, then to refine it through use — not to publish a final word.
Where possible, the pages try to do three things at once: (1) explain a framework on its own terms, (2) translate it into the vocabulary of teaching and learning, and (3) name the connection to other frameworks on the site. Cross-links are deliberate.
Who it's for
Educators and researchers who suspect — or already believe — that the design problems of teaching and learning are systems problems, and that the right tools come from cybernetics, design theory, and organizational change as much as from cognitive psychology.
Contact
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