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Warm Data Labs – Addressing Complex Issues

I can help facilitate the tackling of complex systemic problems and issues through Warm Data Labs and associated workshops. Click here for further information.

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Our children will be facing huge, intertwined, and immensely complex problems, many of which can threaten the survival of humanity. Present emphases in education do not even come close to preparing our children for such an uncertain future. But, our children will be the one’s to face the brunt of these problems and will have to work with others to find ways to address them. And, there are going to be NO easy fixes. Technology is not going to come to the rescue, although technology may (or may not) help in some situations.

Our children need an education that will help them think differently and in ways that will not lead to the same kinds of situations that have gotten us into our present and future predicaments. They will need to draw on the valuable ways of thinking in the natural sciences, the social science, literature, the arts, and mathematics. They also need ways of dealing with emotions and increased levels of stress, so that they can maintain a positive state of mind and think clearly about the problems they’ll face. They also will need to learn how to work with other people across differences in culture, religion, and social norms.

issues facing world humanity
Some of the Issues We’re Facing

What I Can Do for You

In all cases, I am interested in assisting with efforts to transform teaching, classrooms, schools, communities, and other learning contexts to address present and future challenges. By contrast, current “reform” efforts are stuck in systemic pathological patterns. Transformative efforts, on the other hand, look beyond these stuck patterns for ways to create systems that function well (i.e., that avoid the traps of double binds, that work at developing responsive relationships, and that work at developing and maintaining democratic communities of shared power and control).

INDEX of Services

  • Research
  • Design
  • Professional Development
  • Workshops
  • Seminars
  • Keynote Addresses
  • Warm Data Labs

INDEX of Clientele

  • University/College Faculty
  • Graduate Students
  • Undergraduate Students
  • K-12 Teachers and Administrators
  • K-12 Children
  • Parents
  • Corporations & Businesses
  • NGO’s

INDEX of Topics

Note that transcontextual treatment will be used whenever possible.

    • Learning, Cognition, & Personal Epistemology
    • Teaching and Schooling
    • Communities in Classrooms, Schools, and Organizations
    • Systems Thinking
    • Pattern Thinking
    • Teaching and Learning Through Inquiry in Science and Transcontextually
    • Transcontextual Subject Matter:
      • Ecology, Biology, Physics
      • Social Studies and the Social Sciences
      • The Arts
      • Poetry, Story, and Beyond

I can help with:

    • enhancing skill sets.
    • transcontextual & transdisciplinary content knowledge.
    • approaches to transdisciplinary and systems teaching.
    • approaches to teaching that foster relationships and caring, democratic communities.
    • approaches to meaningful and authentic inquiry, problem-based, and project-based teaching.
    • planning and “meta-planning” — curricular, field-based approaches, project-based approaches, inquiry-based approaches.
    • planning — for deep meaningful understanding, for systems thinking, for pattern thinking, etc.
    • designing or redesigning programs and facilities to address new emphases.
    • facilitating innovation.