Complexity in Education

I was playing with some ideas about organizing education along big themes as a way to make this make more "real world" sense to teachers and students.

Complexity
1. Purpose, motivation within a context, a community, a reason for learning
2. Process to seek answers through a team-based problem solving
3. Project, process of collection, finding creating
4. Presentation to a community, a group, that matters and creates a voice

Large thematic examples
• Ecology
• Climate
• Genetics
• Transportation

Subtopics/skills/components
• Urban Design
• Architecture
• Field science
• Space science
• Teams, team-based problems solving
• Self organization
• Homeostasis

Interesting topics
• Fire and climate
• Robotics, AI
• Salmon and fishing
• Salmon and coastal development
• Public health and changing behaviors

Mathematics
• Chaos theory
• Fractals
• Models of complexity
• Statistics and probability

Computers
• GIS
• 3-D Models
• Modeling
• Graphical analysis
• Databases

Jargon
• Complexity theory
• Systems thinking
• Networks, Network dynamics

Ryan 3-04