And because you can't grasp everything, you'll always be missing a lot of essential information.
not everyone will be able to grasp everything in one sitting, so you will always be missing out on important information because your brain will not be able to physically store it
We look at how much something has changed more than what the new value of this something is if it was presented by itself.
we focused so much on how its changing rather than how the information is being presented to us and learning it in the new way
The world is a set of information that's just too enormous for your brain to handle.
it is impossible to know so much information and yet manage to store it in our brains. our brains aren't big enough for all of the information
being closed off to new information is equally hazardous in modern society, where information is the currency of our knowledge-driven world.
no one likes being closed off to new information. everyone wants to be in the know
Biases are shortcuts we've inherited through past generations.
this is true, biases have been past down through generations and some people keep them and others form their own biases based off something
TweetDeck offers a convenient way to look at twitter by letting you view multiple timelines (i.e. hashtags) on one screen.
I really like seeing all of my screens of my twitter account all in one sitting.
Hashtags are important when using twitter.
I really hate the use of hashtags but I don't mind it as much as I did before I started this class. It is really helpful to connect with your peers with a class hashtag and to find the topic you are interested in my using a hashtag.
One advantage of twitter is that it gives us the capability to connect to a much larger audience outside of Keene State College. Who you follow is a huge contributor to what you get out of twitter. Start following companies, organizations, news articles, professors and fellow undergrads to make the most out of twitter.
I really like this about having a professional twitter! I am able to connect to people in my field and get insights on the career that I want outside of college.
how can twitter help with my education?
I thought the exact same thing
“tweets” that are restricted to 140 characters.
it is so hard to tweet things in 140 characters or less
a disconnect between classroom and everyday learning,
more memorizing than actual learning
Connected learning looks to digital media and communications
connected learning is the key to everything- it links communications to the internet in a form of learning
I couldn’t figure out what to write about.
my daily struggle when trying to write a paper or how to start writing about something
I had never taken any sort of online course and the majority of my professors steered clear of using Canvas (BlackBoard/ Easel/ Moodle/ etc.) or any other online platform.
I have never taken an online course until last year and I loved taking a class online. it was lot easier to access the information you needed and to use blackboard/moodle to learn through instead of sitting in a classroom setting.
This is precisely why the push to reduce the high cost of textbooks that has been the cornerstone of the OER movement has been a wake-up call for many of us who may not always have understood what we could do to directly impact the affordability of a college degree.
college is very expensive in itself and paying even more money for textbooks is crazy. by having textbooks be free and easily accessible online makes a world of a difference
OERs are educational materials that are openly-licensed, usually with Creative Commons licenses, and therefore they are generally characterized by the 5 Rs[5]: they can be reused, retained, redistributed, revised, and remixed.
this is very true and also extremely helpful
“Open Pedagogy,” as we engage with it, is a site of praxis, a place where theories about learning, teaching, technology, and social justice enter into a conversation with each other and inform the development of educational practices and structures.
a place where open teaching can happen and a place where anyone can learn
“Open access” refers to research articles that are freely and openly available to the public for reading, reviewing, and building upon.
you dont have to pay a fee in order to read an article that someone has written
College students spend an average of $900 per year on textbooks—26 percent of the cost of tuition at a public, four-year university
this is very true and I don't even pay half of my textbooks or rent them. if my professor doesn't use the book, I dont buy them.
OER allow exactly what the Internet enables: free sharing of educational resources with the world.
OER allows for open insight on the education that everyone is trying to receive. It allows for someone's input on a certain subject to more enhance the knowledge of the subject without it being costly.
Today, the cost of having a 250-page book transcribed by hand is about $250. The cost of printing that same book with a print-on-demand service is about $5. The cost of copying an online version of that same book (e.g., an ePub file) is about $0.0008. The cost of shipping either the handwritten or printed book is about $5. The cost of distributing an electronic copy of the book over the Internet is approximately $0.0007.
the difference of buying a printed textbook versus having the textbook online is huge. I would much rather have the online version for $0.8 then buying a book for $250.
Do students come away from a course in possession of the knowledge and skills the instructor tried to share? (In other words, is the instructor a successful sharer?) If so, we call the instructor a successful educator. If an instructor’s attempts at sharing fail, we call that instructor a poor educator.
To me, this sounds like how successful or unsuccessful the teacher is teaching their students. if everyone in the class is passing and understands the material, the teacher is good at its job. if everyone in the class is failing, then it must be the way the teacher is teaching the material and not doing a good enough job explaining to the material to the students for them to be able to fully understand it.
Education is, first and foremost, an enterprise of sharing.
teachers share knowledge of information to students and if teachers didnt share then there would be no teaching. If there was no teaching happening, education wouldn't be a thing
every person in the world enjoys free (no cost) access to the OER
this makes learning so much easier because students don't have to fret about textbook costs or trying to borrow the book from a friend when instead they will have the book right on their computer.
An interdisciplinary contribution might not qualify a professor for tenure in any department because his study is not a formal subject attached to a single discipline.
it should be qualified because a professor who only knows one discipline is only trained in that area while someone who knows more than one discipline and broaden someone else knowledge and knows more about the disciplines combined
Every department has the programs, faculty, staff, and organization it needs to advance learning within its given field, but sometimes the structures across departments do not align with one another, making interdisciplinarity collaboration a challenge.
I dont think it is a challenge because a lot of fields can be cross matched now and days with new and emerging fields
The five major barriers blocking interdisciplinary students from success are: attitude, communication, academic structure, funding, and career development.
I can see how these 5 would be the major barriers for blocking IDS students from success
Society needs people to be masters in specific areas because they contribute to the understanding of the world at large
very true
If students aren’t free to be curious, engaged, and invested in what they’re learning, then they may never be curious, engaged, or invested in their lives.
sticking to a very structural course load for your major isn't really making you learn the material. Its more memorizing then actually taking the time to learn and enjoy the process
but the decision should come from them for it to be a meaningful, beneficial experience.
if they want to take control of their education, this is the way to do it!
Why do I need to learn this? I’ll never use it in real life.”
this is so accurate
Education is exploration, a phenomenon that cannot be neatly packaged and universally distributed.
education should be about exploring your career choices, your interests and what you want to learn more about.
graduates need more than one kind of skill if they want to compete in today’s job market.
this is very true, you can really no longer go to college and get a bachelors degree. a lot of majors now require you to go and get a masters degree in order to get a good job in your field choice
Knowledge transformed from an experience to a product.
it is more about the money then about the people and it should be the other way around
Without these pre-established academic fields, interdisciplinary studies would not be possible.
without the foundation, you wouldn't have anything to go off on when creating a major
it makes so much more sense that they were able to make lesson plans based off each other’s knowledge and experience.
helping each other out in lessons plans is important because then everyone is getting the same education and everyone is also learning about the same thing and not having one class learn about one thing and another class learn about something totally different
A recent article about Minneapolis Psychiatry attests to the fact that “Now children’s mental health care is interdisciplinary.”
thats interesting, im not sure if I can see it being interdisciplinary
interdisciplinarity would have nothing to build on, nothing to incorporate or weave together in order to find solutions to world problems.
disciplines are important
there is no best method or focus for learning,
this is so true. everyone has a different style of learning and everyone learns differently
the first documented academy was started by the ancient Greek philosopher, Plato.
thats really interesting to find out that plato started the first academy
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 follow us through all of our education
Most people stick it out through thick and thin; without their dedication, the world of culture would have been in a sorry shape.
they allow ideas to adapt to them and not shut them down
According to most interdisciplinary theorists, some problems of knowledge are neglected because they “fail to fit in with disciplinary boundaries thus falling in the interstices between them
I dont know how something fails to be disciplinary
career mobility . . . is among the most potent sources of innovation and development within a discipline.
if you don't have a career in what you are studying, why study it
The very act of creation often involves the bringing together of previously unrelated ideas
being creative is really important when learning, or doing interdisciplinary studies.
Interdisciplinarity is best seen as bringing together distinctive components of two or more disciplines.
thats pretty spot on
The most widely cited attempts break down interdisciplinarity into components such as multidisciplinarity, pluridisciplinarity, crossdisciplinarity, and transdisciplinarity.
all of these components are important for what interdisciplinary is
No people in our own time could rationally proclaim that they knew everything about everything,
no one knows everything about anything, everyone studies one thing and may know all about it but education keeps growing and adding more information to each subject
epistemology explains the why of a discipline: why it focuses on certain content and why it chooses the methods that it chooses.
this could be your core classes for your major and the electives that you choose to back it up for your major.
Content is generally what is “covered” by coursework in the discipline.
this is your main coursework for the major and not just gen eds or electives
Disciplines are made up of many parts.
disciplines are not just one thing- they are compressed with a little of everything
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
instead of breaking the problem down into pieces, this way allows you to look at everything in a whole and see how you can fix it that way
break problems down into smaller parts so that we can solve it piece by piece.
I do this so that I can focus on what the problem is and what I can do to fix it
The various fruits can be served side by side, they can be chopped up and served as a fruit salad, 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.
this reminds me a lot of IDS. we want to create a smoothie of disciplines that would work well together and to get us to our future career and not just take disciplines that wont work together and put them together
number of different fruits involved
this could be like the number of disciplines involved in creating a major
Hang out and talk about intellectual and professional stuff related to the discipline
creating a twitter for this is very helpful. it helps gets you connected to people in your future field
Create a degree, major, or educational program
creating a degree to what they want to study and help an emerging field grow
Interdisciplinarity is like mixing paint. You can lay colors side-by-side to create beautiful paintings (multidisciplinarity), or you can mix them together to get totally new colors (interdisciplinarity).
very interesting way to think about this!
Unfortunately, many of those student workers say that holding a job hurts their grades, as well as limits their choice of courses. By one estimate, college students typically spend less than half the time on their studies than the faculty expects.
work takes over school sometimes. the classes they want may not be a good time because the student may know that they normally are scheduled to work during that time. and when they are working more, they aren't studying and getting their studies done as much.
In just four years, students are expected to be informed about such issues as our nation’s history, democratic society, global economy, international relations, and computer technology, and, for many, to be prepared for graduate study in medicine, law, business, art, architecture, or technical schools.
for some of these fields, it will take more than 4 years to learn, practice and perfect everything that they need to know.
it is really just shorthand for saying that the complexity of the world requires us to have a better understanding of the relationships and connections between all fields that intersect and overlap — economics and sociology, law and psychology, business and history, physics and medicine, anthropology and political science.
all fields overlap in someway and it is useful to have some idea and background in the fields that overlap each other in what you are studying
Information — of all varieties, all levels of priority, and all without much context — is bombarding us from all directions all the time.
this information can be from anywhere- newspapers, journals, books, encyclopedias, the internet and it can be from years ago to present.
Colleges are becoming academic superstores, vast collections of courses, stacked up like sinks and lumber for do-it-yourselfers to try to assemble on their own into a meaningful whole.
this would lead to a more interdisciplinary approach and lead students to taking classes that they want and think would be beneficial to them in the future.
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.
college has become this now and days because it is really hard to get employed right out of college in the field that you chose to study in. if the field is not common, it will be harder to find jobs in that position.
But most importantly, this study is really able to highlight my love of learning.
you can love learning again because this is something that you want to study and you are not being forced to study and learn something that you dont like.
Interdisciplinary studies in and of itself is thinking abstractly and creatively. It is bringing things together to create this abstractness that people will appreciate just for that fact that it is a different way of thinking—a new perspective.
thinking outside the box and not always following the rules when It comes to doing something
Interdisciplinary Studies has given me the confidence to create something of my own that may not be out there yet.
emerging field that is yet to be well known
public assignments tap into fears of public embarrassment.
I wouldn't want all of my assignments posted to my website. I feel like assignments should stay within the classroom and be brought out online. Like said in the passage, the domain is supposed to allow the student's creativity to fly. How is it supposed to fly if they are posting school assignments on their domain?
“To own one’s domain gives students an understanding of how Web technologies work. It puts them in a much better position to control their work, their data, their identity online.”
This allows students to have control over what they say and do with their domain and allows their creativity to fly.
we must be ready to receive their guidance as well.
Having someone guidance when one is building or creating a new domain when they have never one it before is very nice. It is nice to have some guidance when you are trying something new.
For students who have relied on these aids, the freedom to explore and create is the last thing on their minds, so deeply has it been discouraged
Students rely on being told exactly how to do something so when they are told that they can go do anything with this and explore it, many don't know what to do because they have never been given that option before.
Any technology gradually creates a totally new human environment.
When a new piece of technology comes out, everyone is in awed about it and wants to know everything about that piece and how they can put it to use.
This can be a way to track growth and demonstrate new learning over the course of a student’s school career – something that they themselves can reflect upon,
This allows the student to see the progress they made over the years while they are in school and once they leave school what they will take with them and be able to use in the future.
One student uses her domain to showcase her artwork.
each domain is unique to each student and allows the student to showcase what they can do
Having one’s own domain means that students have much more say over what they present to the world, in terms of their public profiles, professional portfolios, and digital identities. Students have control over the look and feel of their own sites, including what’s shared publicly
By allowing students to have their own website, they are able to show what they really can do and can be in control of what goes on the internet. They are allowed to portray themselves however they would like to when they create their domain and this allows them to be free and to be who they really are.
UMW and a growing number of other schools believe that students need a proprietary online space in order to be intellectually productive.
I think by a having a online space for students, this will allow students to lead each other and to know what is meant and not meant for the internet.
Student privacy has become one of the hottest issues in education
This has become a big issue in today's society because people forget that once you post something on the internet it is out there forever and there is no undoing it.