Tag: learning album

What is your position regarding Information Systems? This activity seems to be getting me to declare my perspective on Information Systems before we head into analysis the rest of the block. Well, I work with Information Systems for a living, so I guess I’m an active stakeholder in such things. I test software and this…… Continue reading T306 Block 2: Activity 1

Connecting with a history in your own context. At the beginning of this part of the block, I invited you to consider one of your own role(s) and situation(s) that could be kept in mind as you worked through the part. With this in mind, are you able to think of a practice that is…… Continue reading T306 Block 1: Activity 39

Responding to the distinctions about the observer. Find a way of expressing your emotional and rational responses to the material in Box 1 about the observer. The “Box 1” material is reproduced below: How the observer has come into focus Cybernetics, although often applied to the control of machines, has long been one of the…… Continue reading T306 Block 1: Activity 38

When you talk about experience what do you mean? Describe what was, for you, a new experience. Experiences are circumstances that I’ve been through that I’ve remembered. They shape my perspectives and, eventually, my worldview. They are things that I may remember in the future during new experiences, and these prior experiences may shape how…… Continue reading T306 Block 1: Activity 37

I’m not entirely sure where this one is going but here we go. The right column will be filled in later. *Update* – after reading further down the course materials here is the right column material too. I’ve used definitions more suited to systems thinking that the generic meanings of the verbs. (updated 14/3/2012) Verb…… Continue reading T306 Block 1: Activity 35

List the two contrasting ideas from Table 1 (page 66) that you find most challenging to, or supportive of, your current worldview. Explain why. The table in the question lists “some contrasting features between the traditional Western conception of the disembodied person with that of an embodied person”. I’m not entirely convinced that the course…… Continue reading T306 Block 1: Activity 34

Write down your own initial impressions to the metaphor of the systems practitioner as juggler. What juggler? Oh, this one: I’m going to be seeing a lot of this juggler, I can tell. My initial impressions of this are that the metaphor sounds pretty reasonable on the face of it. It is difficult to manage…… Continue reading T306 Block 1: Activity 32

In your Learning Album list some of the practices you engage in personally and professionally. Suggest some measures of performance for these practices, i.e. how do you know if you do them well? So, this activity is trying to get me to think about being a practitioner of something, how I do things and how…… Continue reading T306 Block 1: Activity 31

What was the perceived problem (or opportunity) to which components in this situation seemed to offer a solution? The problem was seen as absent parents not contributing to the raising of their children, while the parents left with the children struggled financially. Identify at least two organizations, processes, activities or ideas in the situation that…… Continue reading T306 Block 1: Activity 17

Locate yourself in your rich picture. Well, I did already draw myself in the rich picture – performing a nice :facepalm: – but I do wonder if the way I included myself is actually correct. My understanding is more nuanced than it suggests. I do despair about the whole thing, of course, but I could…… Continue reading T306 Block 1: Activity 16