Janina Misiewicz:
Janina always has a smiling face when you walk in the office and she always helps students no matter what!
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- Nov 2017
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Domain of One’s Own
I love having easy access to not only my works but my peers works as well.
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Pass/No Pass “Grading”
This allows the students to not feel so consumed by a letter grade or being judged because they have a C and their best friend in class as an A
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Customized majors
one of the most stressful however most rewarding parts of the IDS intro course. Creating a major designed around me and my likes was amazing.
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Empowers learners to contribute to– not just consume– knowledge
one of the most important parts of the four aspects of Robin's Open Pedagogy.
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This year, we opened a very visible food pantry in our office, which also stocks basic staples (feminine products, detergent, toothbrushes, winter coats).
I personally have never used the food pantry however I think it is a really supportive idea. For many people going to a food pantry may be embarrassing but when you can go to your department office and get food knowing everyone there is to support you and not judge you is so important!
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Our office is open weekdays plus one evening a week (and generally on Sundays as well)
it is crazy to think that most departments are not open for helping their students all the time. Well with IDS I don't have to worry about that because the office is open door policy when someone is there...again their focus is on excelling the student, how could you not love that?!
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This course
I am excited to see where this course leads and how it will grow my education of IDS!
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You can check out our syllabus here, and if you dig in, it will show you a bit about how students propose their individual majors, which is quite an involved process
Having the syllabus laid out with assignments and directions since the beginning of the semester is always one of my favorites because I am one who gets work down way ahead of time.
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Students (if they want– opt-out is always an option) create their own ePorts through the Domain of One’s Own program
Creating an e-Port has been so beneficial for someone like me. As a person and as a student, I am completely an organized freak, so having everything posted at the tips of my fingers all the time in one place creates so a better atmosphere for me. Being able to look at previous works without having to open 8 million different word documents makes all the difference.
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There is something to pay attention to here in terms of how the program has served motivated and confident students
As a IDS student, I have to give a lot of props to my IDS professor, Robin DeRosa. She is a lot of the reason the students are confident and motivated. We need more professors in the University like her!
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Students here include some health-related majors (such as those who don’t hit the minimum grade requirements for Nursing)
I know this experience all to well, I have wanted to be a nurse since I was a young child, I unfortunately did not hit the 80 mark in a class by 3 points, yup you read right 3 points. That is it, that is all it takes. There were moments when I wanted to give school up because experiences like so are heart breaking. I also had th thought of re-applying here for nursing however I thought, would I really be happy another year or two here, far away from my family. That is when I found IDS and boy am I glad I chose this major! Health Science majors of America!
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The program has existed since 1974, but from 1974-2014, we averaged 10 total students per year enrolled in the major
Being apart of this program for only 3 months has given me so much more light at the end of what I thought was a dark title. My experiences at PSU have not all been great, however joining IDS has created so many new and exciting opportunities for me.
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Childhood studies ethics is a growing field
I never even thought about childhood studies ethics as interdisciplinarity before this article.
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The different disciplines
All these disciplines seem to be very important for this study to become interdisciplinary
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The scholarly article I found is called,
Reading this will help me understand the assignment for next week better!
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Overall, it takes many different disciplines in order to successfully fly a group of people around the world
It also takes many different disciplines to successfully study IDS!
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There is tons of advertising, price competition, sales, customer service; the list goes on and on
All different disciplines of business!
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flights have somewhat comfortable seats, but since they cannot recline very much
nothing I hate more than sitting on a plane for more than a couple hours because the seats are not comfortable
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here are tons of planning that goes into them
I would not even know where to begin if I had the opportunity to build a plane....ps I dont ever want to
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Flights are a prime example of what interdisciplinary is.
This is a really great comparison!
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Declaring this major feels like me declaring, “I will not settle for less! I will make the most of my opportunities!”
"What do you even study in IDS" "everything people, EVERYTHING"
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Metacognition is the “awareness of your own learning and thinking process” (Repko 57)
I have never heard of this word before, but it seems to be spot on with IDS
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Secondly, being able to think abstractly, is very significant to me
Being able to see the difference in ways of thinking has improved my education greatly.
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a possibility that others may not see or may not have the confidence to direct.
This hits home for me, having to change my major, all my previous classmates look at my new major as something that will just get me a degree whereas it is not and its actually so important
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Engaging in Interdisciplinary studies has broadened my understanding of entrepreneurship, abstract thinking, metacognition, and love of learning
Being in IDS has changed my perspective of education entirely, I wish more people knew and understood how prominent IDS is without even realizing it.
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- Oct 2017
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Despite the barriers standing in the way of interdisciplinarity, most undergraduate students aren’t affected by them
There is barriers in every part of life, getting over them is the easy part, the hard part is socially not caring what others think
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he five major barriers blocking interdisciplinary students from success are: attitude, communication, academic structure, funding, and career development
Those who dont know what interdisciplinarity entails make it out to be not that big of a deal when in fact they use it everyday
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interdisciplinarity if the disciplines
disciplines seem to be the building blocks of interdisciplinairty
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10,000 hours
i feel like thats not even enough time to MASTER a field. to understand a field maybe but not master it.
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Every detail is a tiny piece to a very large, complicated whol
I never realized how prominent interdisciplinarity is until I started in the program.
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Many post-graduation opportunities don’t even ask about students’ majors in college because they’re more interested in who candidates are as people
I agree with this however I don't at the same time because if a person is not qualified in education for the job does a company really want a good person over an educated person
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in the hands of students.
sometimes the students need more direction than having everything in their own hands
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If students are living their lives in preparation for life, when will they start living?
Don't we start living the second we are born?
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Education is real. Education is now
Education is real and is now but it also is history
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In other words, relevancy is constantly changing and dependent on the present moment
For something to be relevant it needs to be occurring currently
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The benefits of finding creative and integrative ways to combine disciplines far outweigh the disadvantages of interdisciplinarity.
I have not found any disadvantages of interdisciplinarity so far in my journey.
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any students entering college for the first time are surprised by the way it changes their thinking, identity, and perspective
I can agree to this statement 100%. Coming to college really change my point of view for education
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Specialized education was in high demand, changing the structure of many colleges and universities across the United States of America and the world.
Specialized education is still in high demand I believe.
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n the case of education, the modern disciplines—science, art, social science, humanities, and applied science—are considered the prologue to interdisciplinarity
We have learned these disciplines since we began school in kindergarten, it is great to finally be learning what I want to be learning.
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What was interesting to me was thinking about disciplines outside of education and how they interact with each other and in which ways they belong to a social communit
People use many different disciplines in their everyday life without even knowing it.
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Many people as students observe professors and teachers in high school and middle school as being a part of individual social groups, kind of like cliques.
growing up, cliques were a huge part of social life, there were the populars, the outsiders, the band geeks, the nerds and so on, I never wanted to be apart of any clique, I always made friends with people from different cliques.
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Without the disciplines, interdisciplinarity would have nothing to build on, nothing to incorporate or weave together in order to find solutions to world problems
disciplines are the building blocks of interdisciplinarity
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With Interdisciplinary Studies growing rapidly throughout the United States, students are now able to create their own fields of study by combining many disciplines and making it into their major that reflects their own values, passions, and interests
It is such a great option that students are able to have today because not everything is always going to fall under the typical disciplines we have learned since we were kids.
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The basic disciplines that we know now such as fine arts, humanities, social sciences, sciences, and mathematics are still ever changing
I feel like this was all I was ever taught growing up
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Some disciplines have been around as long as the academy, while some have just blossomed within the last few years.
more and more disciplines have been arising in the past few years
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There were no degrees awarded after completion, but it was a way for students to gain extra knowledge and skills.
I have never heard about this, however it sounds like a very interesting way for people who did not want college education but wanted to expand their knowledge.
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11 academic unit
is one of those 11 still religion?
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Harvard began with a single house and a single acre of land, but has now grown to an astounding 5,083 acres
It is crazy how far this university has come, from one house to what it is now.
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The University of Al-Karaouine in Morocco, Africa is the oldest continuously operating, degree-granting university in the world
how old is this university?
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The elder would mentor and guide the adolescent, but it was a one-on-one basis
I feel as though this is still a huge part in life today, I know personally I have a mentor I look up to who maybe is not considered an "elder" but is an elder to me because she is older than me.
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The academy began with teachers simply preaching a topic of their interest.
The word "preaching" gets to me because shouldn't they be teaching not preaching?
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The disciplines that we have been taught since the beginning of elementary school have been such a crucial part in who we are as students, and who we become in our careers after graduation
These disciplines that were taught to us at the beginning of elementary school has been shaping our learning since we first started learning these disciplines.
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“fail to fit in with disciplinary boundaries thus falling in the interstices between them”
break down the boundaries!!
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The gaps among [the social science] disciplines are much too large
Is there actually huge gaps because if there was would interdisciplinarity be a thing.
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more fruitful way of telling apart wheat from chaff.
is it a fruitbowl or a fruit smoothie?
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applies to four realms: knowledge, research, education, and theory
can it go past these four realms? why is there a set limit?
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it still seems “to defy definition
"defy definition" i can agree to that because when I first started in IDS everyone was like "what is that"?
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It has become too easy to criticize esoteric research
What is esoteric research?
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To look beyond . . . is to be overwhelmed by the ocean’s magnitude: better to remain ignorant of all but our own tiny province. . . .
This statement reminds me of being in school and being so overwhelmed with everything going on around me and in school
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No people in our own time could rationally proclaim that they knew everything about everything, or even everything about their own fields
I feel as though there are people now a days who believe that they know every single thing about every minor detail.
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Third, there is the epistemology of the discipline
this is the first time i am hearing about this part of discipline.
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Methods are the way that we study the content of a discipline.
not everyone uses the same methods to understand the content of a discipline which is okay, it is more useful to use something that you know as a student which will help with your learning
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Content is generally what is “covered” by coursework in the discipline
Usually a course will say what the context of the course is right in the syllabus.
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Sometimes we actually don’t want to carve a problem or concept into small bits, but instead want to see how something specific fits into a larger pattern or fabric
I don't ever take solving a problem through this way. I always tend to use the problem solving way expressed above called drilling down.
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Sometimes we break problems down into smaller parts so that we can solve it piece by piece
this is a good problem solving method. Sometimes big problems are easier to figure them out if you figure them out in puzzle piece mechanism. Solving piece by piece will help solve the issue faster
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or they can be finely blended so that the distinctive flavor of each is no longer recognizable, yielding instead the delectable experience of the smoothie
Even when a fruit is mashed up and in a smoothie or a fruit salad even with a blind fold on the tastebuds can pick out all the flavors that are incorporated into it.
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ut connoisseurs sometimes wish to mingle fruits
This part of the article made me laugh because a who thinks about mixing fruits because i dont. and b mixing fruit is sort of like the way interdisciplinary is run.
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Create a degree, major, or educational program
this is what made me decide to go interdis, by being able to create what I wanted!
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This is when you do interdisciplinary work in order to reach an outcome of some kind.
I believe more people should use interdisciplinary because it broadens the spectrum of what you can learn.
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Interdiscipline is a field that emerges when two or more disciplines are combined.
My interdiscipline field emerges from health science, biology, psychology, and nursing. It is cool to be able to have more than one department
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Unfortunately, many of those student workers say that holding a job hurts their grades
I am a student worker and I do agree that sometimes this does affect my school work. Although work study does allow you to do your homework it is very often that you get interrupted in the middle of your work and then have to remember what you were working on.
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Higher education must raise the important issues and guide students in synthesizing responses, if not answers.
Higher education I believe does raise the most important issues.
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nstead of helping students learn and grow as individuals, find meaning in their lives, or understand their role in society, college has become a chaotic maze where students try to pick up something useful as they search for the exit: the degree needed to obtain decent employment
Coming from someone who had to change their major 9 months prior to graduation my last year of college felt as though it was going to be chaotic. I am glad I found IDS and that it is a right fit for me.
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Anyone who has spent time in a college classroom knows what students want from higher education.
Higher education is an option, it is crazy to me that students choose to get a higher education and then decide to skip classes all the time.
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- Sep 2017
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The domains project isn’t revolutionary to the traditional classroom, but it is revolutionary to a classroom reimagined around public scholarship, student agency and experimentation
I think that if this project is given enough effort and enough time, it could be revolutionary.
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For instance, public assignments tap into fears of public embarrassment.
I can understand where this author is coming from considering that some people may not be strong writers who could potentially be fearful of posting something publicly.
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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?
This has crossed my mind but I feel as though someone is more apt to reading something if it is friendly to the eye and not just another Word document.
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And yes, we must be ready to receive their guidance as well.
I thought the directions from previous IDS intro students was very helpful. I was able to accomplish making my ePort on my own.
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As part of the first-year orientation, each student would pick a domain name.
I wish I got my domain during my first year at Plymouth.
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ere’s one idea. Suppose that when students matriculate, they are assigned their own web servers — not 1GB folders
Getting used to something like this may be difficult in the beginning but once the students get used to it they will start using it as well as they use Word. A web server being used let's the students work be at the tips of their fingers all in one place whenever they need it.
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progress means looping back to earlier ideas whose vitality and importance were unrecognized or underexplored at the time, and bringing those ideas back into play in a new context
I hope having a domain where all my work is placed under one area helps me link my works together to better my education.
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The school facilitates the purchase of the domain; it helps with installation of WordPress and other open source software; it offers both technical and instructional support; and it hosts the site until graduation when domain ownership is transferred to the student.
Do students at UMW have to pay for the domain once they graduate?
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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.
I have never had my own domain, I am excited to use one in this course and to see where it can lead me.
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But almost all arguments about student privacy, whether those calling for more restrictions or fewer, fail to give students themselves a voice,
Even if students are not able to have a "voice" because of restrictions with student privacy if they care about the subject enough they will find a way to show their voice.
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These legislative efforts stress the need to protect students when they’re online
Being protected online is in place to help keep students and their work safe.
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