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Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, Upon reading Jay Forrests e-mail, I was prompted to write and put my two cents into the discussion. I am not a professional system dynamicist, but have had the privilege of working with the best over the last seven years toward our mutual goal of introducing system dynamic...

Linda, STELLA and iThink are the same thing, in essence. STELLA is specifically for education so it is a better one to cite. VenSim PLE should definitely be included. I think you should check out Model It thoroughly- I dont know whether it actually helps children explore complex causality. I think t...

Can anyone on the listserv help him? Lees Dear Lees, I am a high school chemistry/math/physics teacher [master in chemical engineering from mcgill u.] working at NORTEL for the summer as a teacher intern. I came across SD while doing a literature search on modelling a simulations for wide area telec...

>I was invited to give a short (1 hr.) presentation on SD to an Advanced >Placement Calculus class at a local high school. The class comprised >mostly seniors with a few juniors. Several students from the regular >calculus course who had the period available joined the group. This sounds like a terr...

Dear Dan, As George Richardson wrote you, there is work going on in this area. In most school districts who are being successful, there is a coordinated effort between the administrative and system reforms and the use of system dynamics in the curriculum. It is a case of walking your talk. Teaching ...

Ken, There is another listserv which discuses system dynamics as it relates to K-12 education. You can sign up on the System Dynamics in Education Project web site ( http://sysdyn.mit.edu/) or by contacting Nan Lux ( nlux@mit.edu). You will also find at the SDEP web site information about the Creati...