Tag: block 1

Examine the initial responses you identified in the light of the stakeholding you identified earlier in Activity 13. Are they related in any way? The previous activity shows that I do lean towards social justice, but that I also have some moderate conservative views. I did economics at A-level and I formed some fairly conservative…… Continue reading T306 Block 1: Activity 14

Identify and record any stake you hold in this situation. I wouldn’t have had much of a stake in the CSA situation back in the 90s, other than as a tax-payer. I could argue that I’d seen it on the news and had views on it then, which were based mostly on the way that…… Continue reading T306 Block 1: Activity 13

Look at your rich picture. Check you have not fallen into the trap of an over hasty identification of the problem. This is the “representing the problem and not the situation thing. I tried really hard not to insert any analysis into the diagram and I think I did this fairly well. I’m fairly sure…… Continue reading T306 Block 1: Activity 12

Review your rich picture. When you come back after a break, spend about 5 minutes taking a good look at the rich picture. Is it as complete as you thought it was? Are you pleased with it? Are you stuck for ideas about how to improve it? Do new features strike you as you look…… Continue reading T306 Block 1: Activity 11

Read the case study in Appendix B and draw a rich picture. The case study describes the mess created when the government started the CSA back in the 90s. I remember this happening back in the 90s and it’s interesting that the day I start reading the case study something pops up in the news…… Continue reading T306 Block 1: Activity 10

How do you read most effectively? Oh crap. Well, I don’t think that I have an effective way of reading. I tend to just, you know, read stuff then hope I remember enough to get by. On previous courses I’ve read a bit here, a bit there and just got on with it, I didn’t…… Continue reading T306 Block 1: Activity 9

How do you understand the focus on your own responses in the activities and in the reading you have done so far? I’m still a little bewildered by it all if I’m to be honest. I’m keeping an open mind about the approach and taking each activity as I see it. I’m willing to change…… Continue reading T306 Block 1: Activity 8

Do you feel able to adopt any of the attitudes I have suggested? These attitudes are as follows: Being open and sensitive to all kinds of information about a situation: not just so-called factual information but impressions, intuitions and hunches, including other people’s when they express them; Being willing and able to see the situation…… Continue reading T306 Block 1: Activity 7

Looking through your previous notes and my previous questions, identify and record any ways your expectations have changed. I think the only way my expectations have changed is in regards to how the course is structured. The Block 1 notes seem to be suggesting that I have to find my own structure. This does worry…… Continue reading T306 Block 1: Activity 6

Make notes on what you think are the main features of systems thinking. Systems thinking, for me, involves the process of describing and understanding systems as wholes. Rather than taking a reductionist view of a system, a wider scope is strived for and systems thinkers attempt to understand how each component of a system might…… Continue reading T306 Block1: Activity 5

More questions about my expectations of this course. What activities do you expect to undertake in studying a level 3 course? Short answer? Similar to a level 3 course but harder.Longer answer? This course is the older, more difficult-to-understand sibling of T214 (or so I imagine) and will require a deeper understanding of the course…… Continue reading T306 Block 1: Activity 4

This one is going to be very short. Add any further thoughts about your expectations. You may feel some of the expectations you had have already been changed. Add any postscripts about this to the notes you made earlier. Make it clear in your notes these are postscripts and what has happened to change your…… Continue reading T306 Block1: Activity 3