Swarm Learning Wiki
What is Swarm Learning (SL)?
Seeks to use continuous student feedback to incrementally change a class over time that fits the needs of the students. Its mission is to teach students how to think, not what to think.
Textbook
Swarm Learning: Teaching Students How to Think, Not What to Think (Textbook)
App
SL Presentations
Swarm Learning FHSU Presentation (Read)
Swarm Learning FHSU Presentation (Watch)
Swarm Learning Hoshin Kanri X-Matrix (Presentation)
SL Principles
Ubiquity, mobility, adaptability, fluidity, autonomy, ambiguity, and collaboration.
SL Rules (Change, Adapt, Evolve)
Rule #1. Provide boundaries for students to create within. This is the "What"... not what to think but the concept(s).
Rule #2. Empower students to think and develop the "How".
Rule #3. Examine the body of work... look at how the student got to their answer instead of focusing on the answer.
Rule #4. Use student feedback to make immediate changes. Then repeat.
Elements of SL
#1. Hecastics (Function): What’s the intended effect?
Assignments: KT, FT, EM, SC, Essay/Blog
Plectica Reference Material Master Map
Cognitive Jigs
#2. Bionomics (Form): What’s the structure?
Blackboard: SL Summer 2020 (Tests & Measurements)
Class WordPress Site: SL Summer 2020
Other Class WordPress Sites:
Spring 2020 (HHP: 630 & HHP: 340)
Loomio Class Site
Key Programs to gain access to:
Cabrera Research Lab
Cabrera Research Lab (CRL) Tools
#3. Diathetics (Logic and Ideas – Fit): Does it make sense? Does it all “fit” together.
Complex Adaptive Syllabus (CAS)
-Spring 2021
-SL Fall 2019
Required and Recommended Books / Reading
Recommended: Flock Not Clock: Align people, processes, and systems to achieve your vision; Systems Thinking Made Simple: New Hope for Solving Wicked Problems; Thinking at Every Desk: Four Simple Skills to Transform Your Classroom; Design Unbound: Volume 1 and Volume 2; Design in Nature: How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organizations; Cynefin and Complexity: A Gentle Introduction (SlideShare); Cynefin in an Agile World (SlideShare); The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking; Pyramid Principle pdf; The Red Team Handbook v9.0; The Art of Reasoning: An Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking (Fourth Edition); The Logical Structure of Objectivism pdf; Awareness and Action: General Semantics pdf; Maneuver Warfare Handbook (Westview Special Studies in Military Affairs); Complete Collection of Cognitive Jigs; The Logical Thinking Process: A Systems Approach to Complex Problem Solving
Tests & Measurements
The Cartoon Guide to Statistics
Administration in Healthcare
-WHO Systems Thinking web annex: Evaluation of interventions with system-wide effects in
developing countries: an exploratory review
-WHO Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research (website)
-Recommended: Health Care Management: Organizational Design and Behavior (6th Edition)
Analytics and Decision Support (textbook)
The Chicago Manual of Style - Citation Guide
Student Maps
-Common Ground for Action - How To Participate
-National Issues Forum (NIF) Framework for Deliberation
Working Dashboards
Feedback and End of Course Evaluation
Evaluation link: Spring 2020
Class Certification
COVID-19 Contact Tracing
Need for Cognitive Closure