Interdisciplinary studies is “a process of answering a question, solving a problem, or addressing a topic that is too broad or complex to be dealt with adequately by a single discipline or profession,” and it “draws on disciplinary perspectives and integrates their insights through construction of a more comprehensive perspective
Choosing your profession and who you want to be is too much of a broad and complex process than to be limited to one discipline
Unless we help our students acquire their own identity, they will end up at the mercy of experts
Interdisciplinary has given me the opportunity to advocate for myself, forced me to step out of my comfort zone and do research to create new boundaries and goals. Before I was an interdisciplinary major, when I was undeclared, I felt as though I was waiting for someone to tell me what to do next. Now I'm paving my own path.
breaking it up into smaller and smaller unconnected fragments of academic specialization, even as the world looks to colleges for help in integrating and synthesizing the exponential increases in information brought about by technological advances
This reminds me of the clusters at Plymouth state and how we're moving towards more integrated majors
But a major failure of our higher-education system is that it has largely come to serve as a job-readiness program.
I strongly relate to this because I was an undeclared major last year. It felt as though my the undeclared advisers weren't concerned with my future and I was only going ot college to be able to get a job, even though I didn't know what that job would be. Interdisciplinary studies has since made me feel powerful and in control of my studies and my future.
If students experience their domain as a graded extension of the classroom, then their ownership is over ‘assignments.’ How often do traditional ‘assignments’ misrepresent student interests, passion, and rigor?
I often struggle with becoming invested in my assignments and treating them as a learning opportunity instead of a grade, so I can relate to this statement and the concern that using ePorts for posting assignments might take away from creative freedom and initiative.
To get there, students must be effective architects, narrators, curators, and inhabitants of their own digital lives.6 Students with this kind of digital fluency will be well-prepared for creative and responsible leadership in the post-Gutenberg age.
I like how the author uses language that makes students feel empowered by the tools we have
students have already developed rich social lives online and could use help, not punishment or paternalism, in understanding how to think through the data trails they’re leaving behind.
This generation has an obsession with social media and the need to represent a certain image of themselves online. I think integrating lessons about online presence into school systems is important and a great idea because today's kids live in a digital world