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---------- Forwarded message --------- From: SDS Pre-college Education SIG <pre-collegeeducat...@systemdynamics.org > Date: Mon, Jan 16, 2023, 1:22 AM Subject: Teaching Social Studies with Systems Thinking To: Tom Johnson <t...@jtjohnson.com> Teaching Social Studies with Systems Thinking Systems Thinking / System Dynamics for Pre-College Education *Free Webinar - Invitation* Teaching Social Studies with Systems Thinking Register the webinar <https://systemdynamics.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9d11cf9f1b43f690d7ef8390d&id=b4d69c26fb&e=838fa7f79c> *January 19 at 12:00 pm EST *|* 6:00 pm Berlin* *8:00 pm İstanbul *| *8:30 pm Tehran* Time Zone Converter <https://systemdynamics.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9d11cf9f1b43f690d7ef8390d&id=41e49ed4ff&e=838fa7f79c> Dear Colleagues, We would like to invite you to attend our *free* webinar highlighting precollege lessons dealing with “Teaching Social Studies with Systems Thinking” to be presented on *Thursday, January 19, at 12:00 pm EST*. We will have three 15 minute presentations: - *Revolutions* - *Improving Context and Content in History Classes* - *Visualizing History and Economics* We hope you will join us for this webinar. Best regards - the SIG leadership team, Özgün Çetinkaya Meltem C. Alibeyoğlu Sena Yıldız Değirmenci Şebnem Feriver Gökşen Kızılkaya Nilay Yılmaz Emre Göktepe Ülkem Yararbaş, SDS Associate VP Pre-college Education Diana Fisher, SDS VP Pre-college Education The Pre-College SIG Webinar Series consists of periodic online presentations on K-12 education topics for Systems Thinking and System Dynamics communities. These virtual presentations cover a wide range of topics on K-12 education and bring together academics, teachers, and students for learning and lively discussion. Our webinars aim to promote and improve skills to effectively apply systems thinking and dynamic computer simulation in K-12 education. All webinars and recordings are free for both SDS members and the general public. Teaching Social Studies with Systems Thinking Revolutions A number of years ago I was invited to work with school teachers incorporating systems mapping and modeling in their classes. The elementary school people wanted a model or map of “revolutions”. They were frustrated. Apparently, that was a unit in their curricula at the time, and no one would help them build one. So we spent the first day with both elementary school and high school teachers evolving together a pretty good map of stocks and flows and feedback loops in a generic view of revolutions. The second day, the high school teachers wanted us to build a simulating model of what we had done the first day. So we did, together. This presentation will retrace the work in both days. I’ll try to show how we did it, as well as what we produced. *George P. Richardson* George P. Richardson is Professor Emeritus of public administration, public policy, and information science at the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at the State University of New York at Albany. He earned his doctorate under Jay Forrester at MIT and is the author of Introduction to System Dynamics Modeling with DYNAMO (1981) and Feedback Thought in Social Science and Systems Theory (1991), both of which were honored with the System Dynamics Society’s Forrester Award. George has played and sung acoustic folk music for sixty years. He has ridden a motorcycle cross-country from NY State to Seattle, the Olympic Peninsula, and down to Portland. He’s also ridden round-trip the fabled Dalton “Highway” from Calgary to Deadhorse, AK, and Prudhoe Bay, 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Both trips took less than sixty years. Improving Context and Content in History Classes History is the science of behavior over time. It is, by definition, an indigenous subject of system dynamics, thus systems thinking. In this presentation, we will give primary and middle school examples of using systems thinking tools in Turkey's War of Independence. The lessons are based on outcomes from the curriculum of the Ministry of National Education in Turkey. Systems thinking tools are embedded in the lessons to put events in the context of a time frame starting from 1300 CE with Behaviour Over Time Graphs and to deeply analyze and discuss the events using Stock-Flow Maps (conceptual Stock-Flow Diagrams). *Özgün Kurt Çetinkaya* Özgün Kurt Çetinkaya earned her Master’s Degree from Dokuz Eylul University in Izmir,Turkey on Primary School Teaching. She worked as an International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program class teacher for 6 years in Işıkkent Primary School. She is preparing to start a PhD program and her research interest is the Systems Thinking Approach in the primary years. Visualizing History and Economics Using Systems Thinking tools with my students allows me to visualize how my students are thinking about and processing complex issues related to history and economics. ST tools also facilitate small group conversations among students who are collaborating on solutions to social problems related to their lives. I will be presenting some of my favorite Systems Thinking related tools and lessons I have used in the classroom with students, including Behaviour Over Time Graphs, Causal Loop Diagrams, the Iceberg model, and a systems thinking mapping activity. *Brett Goble* Brett Goble Is the District Leader for Academic Assurance for CITY Center for Collaborative Learning, a non-profit organization in Tucson Arizona that operates three, small, public charter schools, including City High School, which opened in 2004 Mr. Goble is a co-founder of City High School, a school where each student is well known, honored for their unique talents and learning styles, offered challenging academics, and given opportunities to engage in authentic education through community connections. Mr. Goble served as City High School's principal from 2015 to 2020. Prior to that, Mr. Goble taught English, history, government and economics at City High School. In 2011, Mr. Goble achieved a National Board Certification in the area of Social Studies/History for Adolescence and Young Adulthood. 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