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Examples of Feedback Loops

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Why Did They Cut Down All the Trees?
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Announcing another groundbreaking book available from the CLE and systems author Alan Ticotsky. Alan's new book is packed with lessons, activities and insights for teachers and students to address the complex environmental challenges of our world today using systems thinking tools and techniques. www.clexchange.org/nowwhat/

One of the underutilized powers of system dynamics and systems thinking is the use of the SD/ST tools to aid learning through meta-cognition. Using SD/ST tools helps students gain perspective of what they are thinking -- creating a powerful learning environment. In this activity, an experienced systems educator uses a goal-seeking loop to teach robotics.
Read the article (http://static.clexchange.org/ftp/documents/science/SC2020_RoboticsGoalSeeking.pdf)

Robot Conga Line Students use goal seeking causal loops to build programs for robots that maintain a fixed distance from something in front of it. Multiple robots with this c...