Re: visualization of change

Eva Ekeblad (eva.ekeblad who-is-at ped.gu.se)
Sun, 19 Oct 1997 22:09:34 +0200

>At 01.44 +0200 97-10-19, Eva Ekeblad wrote:
>>More important is the setting: I'm sure we could run very successful
>>projects on modeling in early childhood education, but that doesn't
>>necessarily mean that modeling becomes an integrated part of the practices
>>once the project is over and the researchers leave.
>

and then

At 10.15 -0600 97-10-19, Katherine Goff wrote:
>This coming week I am introducing SimEarth to my fifth grade students.
>This is a simulation of ecological variables influencing life on a
>planet. (My own 12-year old has constructed a Sim planet and nurtured
>the evolution of intelligent lizard life in one of his simulations.) I
>am interested in seeing what they will make of it and how to present
>the concepts that I find so useful from Bateson's Systems Theory to 10
>year olds.

Mm, yes Kathie
so the question is, how do we get more primary teachers reading and
applying Bateson? (more teachers using alanis morissette in their
signature...)

Eva