TACTics Journal
A Publication for and by TOC for Education Practitioners
In this week’s issue:
Connections
(1)
Important Announcement, Kathy Suerken
(2)
Titanic Logic Diagram/Causality Connections, Eleanor May-Brenneker
Editors’ Notes
(3)
Kay Buckner-Seal, Cheryl A. Edwards
CONNECTIONS
(1)
Important Announcement
From
Kathy Suerken <suerken@cox.net>
As
we know there are many concerns about international travel security and,
as
well, with recent events in the Balkans region. It is with enormous regret
that
I announce the 2004 TOCFE conference is cancelled. For this year, we
will
find another direction of a solution to share our insights and vision and
to
create the resultant SYNERGY. After all, “WE, in TOCFE, can do all that
WE
think WE can!” Thank you, Virgil, for such a brilliantly worded direction
of
solution and to YOU in TOCFE for enabling the needed implementation!
For
next year, we are already proceeding with plans for Conference 2005 in
from
there where the TOCFE inspired and committed partnerships of Sears
and
Audrey Taylor along with Jim and Jackie Trimble WILL make it happen.
Meanwhile,
TOCFE owes gratitude that defies words to Zana Borisavljevic
who
worked voluntarily and endlessly to create an anticipated local
attendance
of more than 300 local Serbian teachers, NGO’s and Ministry
officials.
A necessary condition was that she also created a huge facilitator
network
to ensure the highly anticipated first level seminars.
Zana
supports our difficult decision/current reality with all the focus and
amazing
grace that embodies the hallmark of a TOCFE servant leader.
A
humble thank you, Zana, from all of us. Should you want to respond to her
personally:
jana.b@eunet.yu
Kathy
(2) Titanic
Logic Diagram/Causality Connections
(As worked out at Florida Conference 2003 with MA group of
LD/Dyslexia
tutors.)
By
Eleanor May-Brenneker
(I
assume the story line is well known!)
(5)
The Titanic sets sail and IF
(10) The Titanic is known to be unsinkable because of modern technology THEN
(15) The passengers and crew(owner) believe the Titanic will not sink.
IF (15) The passengers and crew believe the Titanic will not sink and IF (20)
The crew have poor visibility in frigid (iceberg) waters and IF
(25) The ship travels too fast THEN
(30) The ship hits an iceberg.
If (30) the ship hits an iceberg and IF
(35) There are design flaws and IF
(40) The iceberg rips a hole in the ship THEN
(45) The ship sinks.
If (45) the ship sinks and IF
(50) The passengers are greedy and fight for seats and IF
(55) There are not enough lifeboats and not enough seats Then
(60) Many people on board perish.
First
we listed all the main events of the tragic accident to form a chain. Then
we
added necessary ingredients to these main events. (Asking: is that always
the
case or normal that because of X, Y happens? Do we need another entity?)
After
that we looked for the logical links or causality connections between the
existing
entities and checked for validity of our logic. (Do you know in which
boxes
these were entered?) The end result was the effect of many lost lives.
But
where lies the real bottom line cause?
It
was amazing how people who were new to TOCFE composed such a wonderful
“good
enough” logic diagram in one TOC session. When we analysed where the
whole
Titanic enterprise went pear-shaped (wrong) many delegates discovered
that
the cause of the massive accident lay in the arrogance and greed of the
ship’s
owner who forced the captain to speed in order to break a world record in
the
false belief that the ship was unsinkable.
We
then applied these findings to our relevant every day lives’ experience and
they
all came up with examples where a similar thing had happened to each of
them
personally. Out of that we extracted a generalisation: arrogance and
greed
can lead to disaster.
Your
views please!
Thank
you,
Eleanor
EDITORS’ NOTES
(3) Kay
Buckner-Seal, Cheryl A. Edwards
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