# Complex adaptive sysytem

**URL:** <https://forum.code.org/t/complex-adaptive-sysytem/4973>\
**Category:** CS in Science\
**Created:** [August 8, 2016, 12:47pm UTC](https://forum.code.org/t/complex-adaptive-sysytem/4973 "2016-08-08T12:47:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![slburton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.code.org/slburton/32/1196_2.png) [@slburton](https://forum.code.org/u/slburton)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2016, 12:47pm UTC](https://forum.code.org/t/complex-adaptive-sysytem/4973/1 "2016-08-08T12:47:52Z")

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My classroom could be considered a form of complex adaptive system, because of the independent agents (teacher/student) come together in a space, system, environment.

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**Author:** ![cheryl\_msmed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/54ee81/32.png) [@cheryl\_msmed](https://forum.code.org/u/cheryl_msmed)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2016, 1:36am UTC](https://forum.code.org/t/complex-adaptive-sysytem/4973/2 "2016-08-10T01:36:32Z")

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When students are working in groups with roles. Over time the students there is the emergence of inequitable participation patterns in a collaborative-inquiry activity.