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QUESTION 4: Complex Systems

QUESTION 4: Complex Systems. Joel Michael, Rush Medical College Janice Gobert, The Concord Consortium Richard Yuretich, University of Massachusetts. QUESTION 4: Complex Systems. QUESTION 4: Complex Systems. The Earth is a system with many individual “pieces.”. QUESTION 4: Complex Systems.

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QUESTION 4: Complex Systems

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  1. QUESTION 4: Complex Systems • Joel Michael, Rush Medical College • Janice Gobert, The Concord Consortium • Richard Yuretich, University of Massachusetts

  2. QUESTION 4: Complex Systems

  3. QUESTION 4: Complex Systems • The Earth is a system with many individual “pieces.”

  4. QUESTION 4: Complex Systems • The Earth is a system with many individual “pieces.” • It is a system described by interacting chains of causal relationships.

  5. QUESTION 4: Complex Systems • The Earth is a system with many individual “pieces.” • It is a system described by interacting chains of causal relationships. • It is a system that contains many interacting feedback loops.

  6. QUESTION 4: Complex Systems • The Earth is a system with many individual “pieces.” • It is a system described by interacting chains of causal relationships. • It is a system that contains many interacting feedback loops. • To “understand” the system requires that the interacting “pieces” be assembled into a holistic view.

  7. THE FOUR QUESTIONS • What does classroom experience suggest are the critical barriers to learning? • What existing research on learning is applicable to these issues? • What new work is needed to develop a research base on learning in the geosciences? • What are critical next steps?

  8. What does classroom experience suggest are the critical barriers to learning?

  9. What does classroom experience suggest are the critical barriers to learning? • “Compartmentalization” by students and teachers • Learning the “language” of the discipline • Presence of misconceptions (about physics, chemistry, geoscience)

  10. What existing research on learning is applicable to these issues?

  11. What existing research on learning is applicable to these issues? • Misconceptions and conceptual change • Collaborative, cooperative, case-based, problem-based learning

  12. What new work is needed to develop a research base on learning in the geosciences?

  13. What new work is needed to develop a research base on learning in the geosciences? • Expert-novice differences (how do geoscientists “think”) • Transfer of physics and chemistry to geoscience

  14. What are critical next steps?

  15. What are critical next steps? • Informing geoscience faculty about what’s known in the learning sciences (“faculty development”) • Mobilizing faculty and professional societies to encourage/facilitate “reform”

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