DAY ONE: gamestar mechanic
What is it? Gamestar Mechanic is a game-based digital learning platform designed to teach the guiding principles of game design and systems thinking in a creative environment.
What is a System?
A system is composed of interrelated parts that cooperate in processes. Natural systems include human body, ocean currents, the climate, the solar system and ecosystems.
Designed systems include airplanes, software systems, technologies and machines of all kinds, government agencies and business systems.
So, then, What is Systems Thinking?
Systems thinking is the process of understanding how things, regarded as systems, influence one another within a whole.
------------------According to Peter Senge (Scientist @MIT)
A Fundamental Principle Of Systems Thinking:
Only Smart Individuals Are No Longer Needed, Collective Intelligence Is
We all have probably spent too much time thinking about ‘smart individuals.’
That’s one of the problems with some schools. Some are very individualistic, very much about ‘the smart kids and the dumb kids.’ That’s not the kind of smartness we need.
The smartness we need is collective. That is the concept of intelligence we need, and it will never be achieved by a handful of smart individuals.
It’s not about ‘the smartest guys in the room.’ It’s about what we can do collectively. So the intelligence that matters is collective intelligence, and that’s the concept of ‘smart’ that will really {turn out to be what make us successful.}”
A word from your teacher -
This reminds me of Brainstorming rules - remember those? One of the main rules of brainstorming is NO Putting down anyone's idea and there is a very good reason for that. It is because that idea that maybe seems odd, out of place or random at the time sparks an idea within someone else that turns out to be stellar. That stellar idea would have never occurred without the contribution of that random, odd thought.
3 Characteristics Of A Systems Thinking Approach
What is a System?
A system is composed of interrelated parts that cooperate in processes. Natural systems include human body, ocean currents, the climate, the solar system and ecosystems.
Designed systems include airplanes, software systems, technologies and machines of all kinds, government agencies and business systems.
So, then, What is Systems Thinking?
Systems thinking is the process of understanding how things, regarded as systems, influence one another within a whole.
------------------According to Peter Senge (Scientist @MIT)
A Fundamental Principle Of Systems Thinking:
Only Smart Individuals Are No Longer Needed, Collective Intelligence Is
We all have probably spent too much time thinking about ‘smart individuals.’
That’s one of the problems with some schools. Some are very individualistic, very much about ‘the smart kids and the dumb kids.’ That’s not the kind of smartness we need.
The smartness we need is collective. That is the concept of intelligence we need, and it will never be achieved by a handful of smart individuals.
It’s not about ‘the smartest guys in the room.’ It’s about what we can do collectively. So the intelligence that matters is collective intelligence, and that’s the concept of ‘smart’ that will really {turn out to be what make us successful.}”
A word from your teacher -
This reminds me of Brainstorming rules - remember those? One of the main rules of brainstorming is NO Putting down anyone's idea and there is a very good reason for that. It is because that idea that maybe seems odd, out of place or random at the time sparks an idea within someone else that turns out to be stellar. That stellar idea would have never occurred without the contribution of that random, odd thought.
3 Characteristics Of A Systems Thinking Approach
- A very deep and persistent commitment to ‘real learning.’
- I have to be prepared to be wrong. If it was pretty obvious what we ought to be doing, then we’d be already doing it. So I’m part of the problem, my own way of seeing things is probably part of the problem. This is what we’ve always called ‘mental models.’ If I’m not prepared to challenge my own mental models, then the likelihood of finding non-obvious areas of {problem-solving} are very low.
- The need to triangulate. You need to get different people, from different points of view, who are seeing different parts of the system to come together and collectively start to see something that individually none of them see.”
How does GAMESTAR MECHANIC
apply to my education in this class?
The game and the accompanying Learning Guide are designed to foster critical 21st century skills such as:
• System thinking
• Problem solving
• Creativity
• Collaboration
• Digital media literacies
• Motivation for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) learning.
* Also - see the Footer for the GPS for this class.
• System thinking
• Problem solving
• Creativity
• Collaboration
• Digital media literacies
• Motivation for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) learning.
* Also - see the Footer for the GPS for this class.
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