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Complex Systems and Scale-Free NetworksScientists have recently discovered that various complex systems have an underlying architecture governed by shared organizing principles. This insight has important implications for a host of applications, from drug development to Internet security.
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Simulation technology could help prevent future financial crises - Europe's Information Society NewsroomLanguage navigation: en Simulation technology could help prevent ...
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Student-led learning at Calgary school - Canadian Coalition of Self-Directed LearningThere are no bells at Bishop Carroll High School ushering students onto their next class. There are no classes, for that matter, no timetables telling students where to be and what to study. For almost 40 years, the southwest Calgary high school has embraced self-directed learning by allowing ...
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Canadian Coalition for Self-Directed Learning - learners able to control and direct their learningThe Canadian Coalition for Self-Directed Learning is an organization of secondary schools throughout Canada that are dedicated to the personalization of learning which takes into account individual student characteristics, talents, interests and academic backgrounds. CCSDL schools believe that ...
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Education for Sustainable Development - HandbookEducation for Sustainable Development aim to help the student to: • Autonomously reflect on and gain insight in his/her own and someone else’s situation, and the degree to which these situations are interconnected and how they are determined. • Learn to critically value situations. • Learn to ...
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Big Data, Global Development, and Complex Social SystemsNathan Eagle, Omidyar Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute, infers behavioral dynamics on a broad spectrum of scales using technology; from risky behavior in a group of MIT freshman, to cholera outbreaks in Rwanda and wealth in the UK, to disease transmission and slum formations in East Africa. ...
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Self-organizational pedagogy on the edge of chaos - new venues for science teacher educationThis paper describes our attempt to develop a pedagogical practice informed by the concepts of complexity applied to education. The context of our study was the science methods course within an elementary teacher education program. The practice, described here, has overlapped instruction and ...
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School Architecture and Complexity - Rena UpitisRecent studies document the importance of well-designed facilities on the academic performance of students in language and mathematics, but there is very little research on how space dictates what is learned and how it is learned. What about learning that is not directly measurable by ...
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Learning and Knowing in Indigenous Societies todayHome Explore Community Help Sign Up Log In Document Information 4 Reads | 0 Comments The loss of their specialised knowledge of nature is a grave concern for many indigenous communities throughout the world. Education, as it is understood in a Western context, occupies a pivotal ...
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Heuristics and Propositions for Understanding Resilience in Social-Ecological SystemsThis paper is a work-in-progress account of ideas and propositions about resilience in social-ecological systems. It articulates our understanding of how these complex systems change and what determines their ability to absorb disturbances in either their ecological or their social domains. We ...
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