Fwd: [Tech Ops WG Chairs & ADs] Fwd: Systems Literacy

[Anabel Fraga Vázquez]

Dear all,

Hope you’ll find it interesting! See you soon at IS 2019!

Un saludo / Best regards / Hälsningar,

 Anabel

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From: James Martin <mart...@gmail.com>
Date: 10 July 2019 at 20:21:02 CEST
To: tec...@incose.org
Subject: [Tech Ops WG Chairs & ADs] Fwd: Systems Literacy

Please forward this to your WG members. They might be interested in attending this workshop at IS sponsored by the Systems Science Working Group.

Thanks,

James

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From: James Martin <mart...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 2:19 PM
Subject: Systems Literacy
To: SSWG <syss...@googlegroups.com>

If you are attending the INCOSE Symposium in a couple of weeks, you might be interested in also attending this workshop sponsored by the Systems Science Working Group. You can register at: https://www.incose.org/symp2019/symposium/registration-fees#

Systems Literacy Workshop

Workshop Leaders:
Peter Tuddenham (president of the International Society of Systems Sciences)
James Martin (chair of Systems Science Working Group)

When

Sunday, 21 July, 08:00 - 17:00

Where

Ballroom C, Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress, Orlando, FL, USA

Abstract

Systems Literacy is a coordinated ongoing action to create a greater awareness and understanding about “Systems” in our lives, in the world, nature, society, science and art, in schools and universities, in engineering, and beyond. It is anticipated that building greater awareness and understanding of Systems will help individuals and groups develop an ability to make informed decisions and communicate using systems approaches. 

This Systems Literacy initiative builds on previous “literacy” work over the past 20 years facilitated and/or contributed to by the College of Exploration and by many other Literacy projects. These are combined with several previous systems literacy projects and the many “systems” education programs around the world. These range across many disciplines and many related topics, including cybernetics, complexity, complex adaptive systems, systems thinking, network literacy and network thinking, pattern literacy, developments in neurosciences, and many others.

The aim is to create a broader awareness and understanding of the science (and art) of systems. To achieve that we are building a collaborative learning system for systems literacy that coherently and systemically includes as many individuals, groups, societies, associations and other organizations from around the world who are concerned with systems research, education, theory, methods and applications to map, understand and describe big ideas, principles and concepts of systems.

The 2019 Annual Meeting and Conference of the International Society for the Systems Sciences will have a focus on Systems Literacy. The outputs and outcomes from that meeting in June will be presented at the INCOSE Symposium workshop in July.
The USA is implementing the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) in K-12 education. One aspect of the NGSS is a set of cross-cutting concepts that students consider in their science and engineering education. This Systems Literacy project takes those 7 cross-cutting concepts and supports their intent and application with richer systems content and contribution from systems engineers. This workshop will consider the work so far and design ways to make it relevant to systems engineers at all stages of their education and career.

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James