General comment. We need to guide/limit the number of H2s in a lesson. These are all H2s, and there are 6, which is a lot for one lesson.
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- Oct 2025
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: The Building Blocks of System Dynamics
Simplify titles when possible. Ive been seeing some very long and verbose titles.
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Can you think of a team, business unit, or process in your organization that feels stable, even though change is constantly occurring? What keeps it in balance?
This is a good reflection.
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Closing Thoughts Systems thinking isn’t just about connecting the dots. It’s about understanding why those dots behave the way they do. By learning to see steady states, manage stocks and flows, set boundaries intentionally, and surface governance dynamics, you gain the tools to shape systems and not just react to them.
Let's talk about closing thoughts, summaries, etc. and ways to close lessons. Do we need a closing thought? AI does this, but it rarely feels valuable.
This feels fluffy, but maybe it's because of the "It's not just X, it's X." structure.
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Stocks are the accumulations in a system, like the water in a pond, the money in a savings account, or the number of trained staff in an organization.
This could be more effective if we're focused on weaving the example we introduced above throughout (intentionally). ie, take out pond analogy, for example, Stocks are,..
Other examples of stocks include...
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and Dynamic Balance
Do we need this second part of the title? the term Dynamic balance isn't used.
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Reflection prompt:
Terms like "reflection prompt" and "discussion prompt" are id language, not ideal for students. How can we standardize this in our courses?
Take a moment to reflect.??? Maybe an icon?
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Let’s begin with a natural example: a pond.
This is conversational and uses an analogy. As someone 'learning' this, this is easy to understand and the visual adds to the learning experience here.
good tone, good analogy, good use of an image
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steady state
bold this - it's a term with a definition
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What Makes a System Tick?
Consider not using headings for the intro/overview unless intro or overview?
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Musikanski, L., Phillips, R., Bradbury, J, DeGraaf, J. & Bliss, C. L. (2021).
Remove authors and and publisher. Simple include the text title and the chapter number and title. When only one chapter, don't use a subbullet. Place title and chapter in main bullet. Chapter first?
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For the exmplar, remove the text (stocks and flows) from the image. In general, we want to avoid this and this particular definition is phrased different from the one in the lesson.
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