and find myself constantly connecting everything I do/ come across

Without taking an open pedagogy class I would never have realized this about myself.

I understand what fitness is and what nature and nurture is and how it plays out in our existence. I understand the the genes in our body have spectrums – dopamine can make you happy or it can make you kill someone – and that variations exist in everyone. I understand how the mind works in response to the world around it

It’s not information that I was forced to regurgitate.

My 4.0 means that I have mastered the system under which we, in the United States, are taught under in public institutions.

I realized what kind of learner I really am.

I was linking the Biology to my personal life which was my inspiration and in doing this I found more links (a genetic link) that I continued to explore even further in my next post.

If there had been a rubric, that would have been the only thing on it.

I couldn’t figure out what to write about.

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Little did I know that being accustomed to this form of learning would end up being the very issue I had with learning.

I was accustomed to hard-copy textbooks, handwritten in-class worksheets, and producing tangible, hardy-copy projects.

What an Open Pedagogy Class Taught Me About Myself

Connected learning is socially embedded, interest-driven, and oriented toward expanding educational, economic or political opportunity.

Connected learning

I don’t really enjoy skipping classes because I don’t like getting behind in schoolwork

work, finding a job after college, finding a place to live after college

One of your biggest priorities should honestly be your well being

deadlines that you may have due

relax your mind and refresh yourself

I feel like with all of life’s adventures and stressors we all deserve to take an occasional mental health day.

This statement applies to life in general, sometimes you just have to take a day for yourself and there’s nothing wrong with that!

With mental health days employees will be able to be more productive and happy at their jobs.

I feel like bosses should allow an occasional mental health day for their employees.

Try, explore, fail, share, revise.

Look to programs and colleges that are widely accessible and which serve a broad variety of learners and ask questions about how their course designs are distinct or compelling.

We would probably all agree that such segmenting of our fields is somewhat arbitrary; there is nothing ontological about Introduction to Psychology being fourteen weeks long (or spanning twenty-eight textbook chapters, etc.).

they have with the content while helping them acquire a key twenty-first century skill.

Build course policies, outcomes, assignments, rubrics, and schedules of work collaboratively with students.

Engage students in public chats with authors or experts.

where they can manage their own learning, control their own data, and design home ports that can serve as sites for collaboration and conversation about their work.

Teach your students how to edit Wikipedia articles.

Asking students to help reframe

adding problem sets or discussion questions

OERs invite faculty to play a direct role in making higher education more accessible.

How will they get to class if they can’t afford gas money or a bus pass?

push to reduce the high cost of textbooks

“higher education shall be equally accessible to all.”

“disposable assignments”[7]

Open Pedagogy,

will diseases be cured more quickly

If they do, will more people be able to access an education and, if so, what will that mean for individuals, families, countries, and economies?

“Open teaching”

“Open teaching” began as a practice of using technology to open formal university courses for free, informal participation by individuals not officially enrolled in the course.

the researcher should control the reproduction and distribution rights to his or her work.

you’ve now paid for it 250 times.

. Instructors and students are constantly “making do” with suboptimal materials—and spending more than necessary as they do so

no difference in learning outcomes between students who used open textbooks and students who used traditional, proprietary textbooks

Many open textbook projects allow the textbooks to be used free online and provide a method for purchasing a printed copy

College students spend an average of $900 per year on textbook

oday, the cost of having a 250-page book transcribed by hand is about $250.

Education is a matter of sharing, and the open educational resources approach is designed specifically to enable extremely efficient and affordable sharing.

Do students come away from a course in possession of the knowledge and skills the instructor tried to share?

If an instructor is not sharing what he or she knows with students, there is no education happening.

Even if a student enters college with a clear idea of what she wants to do, she will probably change her mind along the way

meaning interdisciplinary students might graduate as masters of nothing.

The attitudinal barrier between democrats and republicans makes bipartisan compromise almost impossible.

10,000 hours

Walmart can’t operate if there are no manufacturers supplying them with goods or accountants monitoring their spending or people buying their products.

A doctor can’t diagnose his patients with specific diseases if he doesn’t understand how the entire human body works

as people.

there is no predetermined curriculum waiting for them when they start their first day of college:

Education is about more than passing a test or being accepted to the “right” school, it’s about self-discovery and personal growth as an individual.

College is just one step on the continual stairway of advancement, and they are always aware that they must get to the next step (law school, medical school, whatever) so that they can progress up the steps after that.”

work now, play later”

“suffer now, succeed later”

If students are not engaged with a subject because they believe it’s irrelevant, no amount of force will change their minds, or if they do change their minds, the decision comes from outside, not from within.

Why do I need to learn this? I’ll never use it in real life.”

researchers found that students who study interdisciplinarity are more likely to develop: affective cognitive skills; reading, writing, speaking, and thinking skills; higher curiosity for learning; more creativity and originality in thought processes; and an ability to integrate traditional ideas with current ideas.

The benefits of finding creative and integrative ways to combine disciplines far outweigh the disadvantages of interdisciplinarity.

Students who graduate with an anthropology degree may not pursue a career in anthropology, but their degrees have prepared them to critically analyze different cultures and traditions, to synthesize those observations, and record clear opinions about them.

If students go to school and pursue a single degree without challenging their minds with different perspectives and disciplines, aren’t they depriving themselves of a brilliant opportunity to grow as an individual?

Graduating with a career-oriented degree, like “business,” might help a recent graduate find a job straight out of school, but will she succeed at her job over time?

All of these things make up a phenomenal employee that any employer would like to hire”

Oskar Gruenwald, editor of the Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, believes interdisciplinary studies is a “novelty” that will reinvent higher education.

Many students entering college for the first time are surprised by the way it changes their thinking, identity, and perspective.

but a science, technology, engineering, or math degree does not guarantee a job

more than one kind of skill if they want to compete in today’s job market

guide students through the established hierarchy of education

age eighteen, was old enough to select his own courses and pursue his own imagination

sub-disciplines

Knowledge transformed from an experience to a product.

interdisciplinary studies would not be possible.

The medical field is most likely one of the most specialized fields in the world, even though it seems the human body and its complex systems would be the number one use for interdisciplinary study

outside my discipline one day.

Now children’s mental health care is interdisciplinary.

thinking about disciplines outside of education and how they interact with each other and in which ways they belong to a social community

Looking back, it makes so much more sense that they were able to make lesson plans based off each other’s knowledge and experience.

grow and show its potential.

This approach is called Interdisciplinary Studies

their own likes and dislikes.

allow students to choose what they want to study even if it is not the most prestigious or highest paying discipline

The only discipline that remained constant throughout the centuries was “Humanities”, which was composed of philosophy, classical and modern languages, history, art history, and religious studies.

they did not need such advanced technology, like we do today

Academics have been constantly changing based on what society feels is important for the students to learn from the beginning of time.

medicine, it is important to reflect on the past use of herbs and how far we have come with modern pharmaceuticals today.

the academy, while some have just blossomed within the last few years.

define what a “discipline” is.

Ever since financial aid was provided, online education has been drastically increasing in popularity

After completing the chapter, they would mail it back and request the next one.

but they at first lacked the legitimacy of a physical university.

but has now grown to an astounding 5,083 acres

The elder would mentor and guide the adolescent, but it was a one-on-one basis.  

 it is unlikely that modern universities can produce many graduates who will reflect the now elusive Renaissance ideal.

At the institutional level, this implies encouraging students to take at least one consciously integrative course.

It must never forget that a vibrant community of scholars–just like a thriving ecosystem–nurtures specialists and generalists, diversity and interconnections.

In this case, the interdisciplinary corrective was put into effect by the mathematician Hardy.

Although these bleak assessments of contemporary particle physics, social science, and education could be mistaken, the history of ideas leaves little doubt that some fields are, or will be, in an unsettled state.

if chance favors the prepared mind, and if preparation often involves grounding in two or more disciplines, then those who wish to speed up the growth of knowledge should promote, or at least tolerate, interdisciplinary knowledge and research.

When pressed to justify interdisciplinary knowledge and research, theorists typically come up with two or three arguments

Interdisciplinary theory takes interdisciplinary knowledge, research, or education as its main objects of study

Interdisciplinarity is best seen as bringing together distinctive components of two or more disciplines

multidisciplinarity, pluridisciplinarity, crossdisciplinarity, and transdisciplinarity

Examples

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help us see the different disciplines that are involved, which will then allow us to organize our research approach.

This is called “drilling down” a problem.

An epistemology is a worldview, ideology, or approach to truth and knowledge.

Some disciplines use a mix of these

Content is the what of a discipline.

A second criterion would be distance: mixing Mackintosh and Winesap apples would result in less amalgamation than the mixing of oranges and grapefruits, and still less than the mixing of oranges and cherries.

FRUIT

amalgamation

Have you been part of a disciplinary community in high school or college so far? What did you do as part of that community?

Create a degree, major, or educational program

Are you more interested in INSTRUMENTAL or CRITICAL interdisciplinarity? 

Interdisciplinarity is like mixing paint.

is like a fruit bowl, where different disciplines are represented by the different fruits that are placed together in a bowl but which do not mix much or change shape themselves.

Interdisciplinarity

Interdisciplinarity

Disciplinarity

“History, Science, and Medicine.”

Clearly we have to re-evaluate our entire system of education for what it is: an 18- year learning continuum that prepares citizens for a life of learning. We must rid it of unnecessary and wasteful duplication, and create coherence and integrity in our curricula.

holding a job hurts their grades, as well as limits their choice of courses

Electronic communication

required literacies

the spread of knowledge.

stacked up like sinks and lumber for do-it-yourselfers to try to assemble on their own into a meaningful whole

general-education requirements

For most students, college is a time for self-discovery, for developing passionate interests

feel trapped or to feel stuck in this routine that everyone who has graduated with your degree has gone through-

Metacognition

Will this person be able to benefit my company with creative, new, and different ideas?

That possibility is going to open so many doors for me.

If no one wants to read the hastily constructed blog post for a class participation grade, then what is the purpose of making it public?

gives students agency and control; they are the subjects of their learning, not the objects of education technology software.”

To provide students the guidance they need to reach these goals, faculty and staff must be willing to lead by example — to demonstrate and discuss, as fellow learners, how they have created and connected their own personal cyberinfrastructures.

Many students simply want to know what their professors want and how to give that to them.

In short, students would build a personal cyberinfrastructure, one they would continue to modify and extend throughout their college career — and beyond.

Suppose that when students matriculate, they are assigned their own web servers — not 1GB folders in the institution’s web space but honest-to-goodness virtualized web servers of the kind available for $7.99 a month from a variety of hosting services, with built-in affordances ranging from database maintenance to web analytics

So, how might colleges and universities shape curricula to support and inspire the imaginations that students need?

Print is not advanced calligraphy.

new modes of communication change what can be imagined and expressed.

“digital facelift”

“put their courses online.”

“And I want my students to know that that’s something they can ask about, and learn to manage for themselves.”

they don’t actually get to take that work with them when they move or graduate.

While some schools are turning to social media monitoring firms to keep an eye on students online

“Lots of iPods, iPads, and laptops.

Students have control over the look and feel of their own sites, including what’s shared publicly.

they are the subjects of their learning, not the objects of education technology software.

It isn’t simply a blog or a bit of Web space and storage at the school’s dot-edu, but their own domain – the dot com (or dot net, etc) of the student’s choosing.

These legislative efforts stress the need to protect students when they’re online, safeguarding their data from advertisers as well as from unscrupulous people and companies.