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education & learning evaluation systems thinking

Developmental Evaluation and Mindfulness

January 20, 2014December 3, 2018 Cameron D. Norman 1328 Views attention, CENSE Research + Design, complexity, decision making, developmental evaluation, education, emergence, evaluability assessment, health, innovation, Karl Weick, learning organization, metacognition, mindfulness, organizational mindfulness, sensemaking, social innovation

Developmental evaluation is focused on real-time decision making for programs operating in complex, changing conditions, which can tax the attentional

health psychology systems thinking

The New Zombie

October 24, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 706 Views CDC, Clay Shirky, complex systems, contemplative inquiry, design thinking, Facebook, John Bohannon, journalism, metacognition, mindfulness, mobile phones, organizational change, public health, research, resilience, science, social media, systems thinking, The Economist, tribes, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, zombie

Information is everywhere (and if you live in cities, people might be everywhere, too) and yet the volume of information we see is overwhelmed by what we do not see. Zombies are among us like information and because of that information might be less attuned to what is going on around them. This has enormous consequences and most of it is not good.

design systems thinking

Design Thinking: Thinkers, Science and Practice

September 6, 2012October 25, 2017 Cameron D. Norman 654 Views AIGA, Bruce Nussbaum, community of practice, design, design education, design research, design thinking, DMI, education, evaluation, experiment, metacognition, practice, psychology, research, social innovation, systems thinking, William Storage

If to think and be aware of those thoughts (to think about thinking) is a defining feature of what it