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This site is dedicated to promoting complex systems thinking, pattern thinking, and other ways of thinking about and understanding our world that promote healthy connections and relationships to self, others, society, and the environment. My work with The International Bateson Institute and How to get systems unstuck.” Video © 2015 Nora Bateson (I appear at 2:24) Warm Data Labs We live in a complex world. .. And, now we are facing increasingly complex and perplexing issues with no one way” to fix them. In fact, the problems we face now and will face in the future are going to require very different ways of understanding the depth, extent, and intertwined nature of these issues and are going to require very different ways of addressing them. Warm Data Labs provide new and intriguing ways of developing complex understandings of the problems we face, and can stimulate new partnerships and sets of meaningful approaches to dealing with wicked” problems. 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Politicians aren’t really interested in THE child,” only in the political capital they can accumulate by playing on the emotions of the voters. Corporations are only interested in the billions of dollars to be made in tests, curriculums, and books. In addition, our educational institutions focus on educating heads”… and only the left side of heads at that. This educating” focuses not only on the logical and rational, but also on the superficial and disconnected. High-stakes testing, narrow and mechanistic views of curriculum, dispassionate and detached views of children, and limited views and visions of learning are killing” our children. Most children enter school with their intelligence, curiosity, and creativity intact and thriving. However, it doesn’t take long to turn them into living robots,” who no longer enjoy learning and who’ve lost their curiosity, passion, and creativity. Even though each child is unique, schools expect them to conform to some sort of lifeless standard. Children’s voices are silenced; and their spirits are deadened. Yet, children are capable of so much more than we can ever imagine. This site and my other sites are devoted to exploring these issues and to pushing the limits of our assumptions about schooling and learning. My work is embedded in the notion of children’s abilities to think deeply and creatively. At the same time, they are capable systems thinkers, pattern thinkers, and inquirers who learn through play, exploration, talk, and other forms of social interaction. Schools tend to limit their learning and limit the ways in which they communicate what they know. As adults, parents, and educators, we need to provide children with different opportunities to learn, explore, and communicate. In fact, we must provide such opportunities. 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AS As ecosystems are stressed and careen towards collapse… As the world population increases beyond the limits of capacity… As communities split apart and are consumed by fear and hatred… As nations come apart at the seams or barely hang on to some semblance of coherence and sanity… As cultures lose their identities, but are feared and hated anyway… As families disintegrate and disperse around the globe… As religions mesmerize the masses and are lost in the quest for power and money… As corporations plan their take-over, while abusing their workers… As politicians seem to have lost all sense of what it means to govern… As tyrannical despots take over positions of power… As the use of nuclear weapons moves from past memories to distinct possibilities… As people lose their senses of empathy, compassion, integrity, and generosity… We approach a POINT… A point around which we find ourselves spinning. We may spin out of control towards total self-destruction. Or… we may spin into new ways of thinking and relating. So far, schools and their corporate over-lords have been complicit in the movement toward total collapse. But, if there is to be any hope, schools must step up and take the lead. Schools must prepare our children to create new ways to live together and within our ecosystems. Schools must prepare our children to collaborate and think in more complex and creative ways. Schools must help children learn to survive and thrive as ecosystems collapse or change. Our children are the generation that will face the brunt of all that humanity has done wrong. My Blog RSS Feed The Inappropriate and Problematic Uses of Technology April 16, 2024 Life in the Fast Lane That’s Under Construction and Riddled With Mishaps and Distractions: What I’ve Been Thinking About, But Not Getting Done — PART 1 April 22, 2023 The Problems With Scale and Scalability October 23, 2021 Pondering Courage and More September 27, 2021 What Needs to be Taught? — Part I: A History September 21, 2021 The Poison That Can Be Money September 5, 2021 Learning Authoritarianism — Insidious and Pervasive August 21, 2021 The Intended Results of Our Education System June 14, 2021 Tons of Resources Extracted From Earth This Year Tons of Waste Dumped This Year To View Visitor Statistics, Click on Link Below Visitor Stats Estimated World Population Number of Earth’s We Need to Support Our Current Population (Ecological Footprint & Overshoot) © 2000, 2018 by Jeffrey W. Bloom Proudly powered...