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| For more information read Systems Thinking: Managing Chaos and Complexity by Jamshid Gharajedaghi, 1999. |
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Emergent properties are those things we can only measure the manifestations of and which cannot be stored or saved for later use. Love, happiness, joy, and confidence are examples of emergent properties. I can experience joy but my arm cannot. I can feel confident but I can't store that feeling to call out in a new situation in a new time. In education we are mandated to provide data and results on the things we can measure with validity and reliability. While necessary it is not sufficient to understand the whole of student learning. This is a direct result of a society who believes in analysis. Real learning continually creates and re-creates emergent properties and teaches us how to more consistently create and re-create desired emergent properties for themselves and others. A standardized test, a classroom rubric, or a course grade cannot capture this learning. As experienced teachers will tell you, they can "see" it when a student gets it. What they are seeing is the manifestation of an emergent property. |
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