Parachute use did not significantly reduce death or major injury

23 agreed to be enrolled and were randomized.

Randomized controlled trial.

When companies work through empathy, they create meaningful products that positively exist within consumers lives.

“I tried to shave his face today,” she began. “It was… so hard. I felt like I was hurting him, I think I may have accidentally cut him a little” she cried again.

If I was some master of knowledge or learning like the school system tells me I am, wouldn’t I remember these things?

I’ve spent 16 years learning, and 13 years ago I was taught about all of the layers of the Earth. Do you think I remember what they are? I think there’s four layer and crust and core are given – the rest are a mystery.

NOW I was getting it. 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.

There was no cubic for our blog posts so I froze under the pressure of have absolutely no expectations. “What does she expect from me?”,

I’m sure you can only imagine my surprise when I logged into the course to discover my first assignment was to set up a blog and twitter.

I was pretty ‘disconnected’

offer engaging formats for interactivity and self-expression,

Robin DeRosa is director of interdisciplinary studies at Plymouth State University, part of the university system of New Hampshire. Her current research and advocacy work focuses on Open Education, and how universities can innovate in order to bring down costs for students, increase interdisciplinary collaboration, and refocus the academic world on strengthening the public good. 

Teach your students how to edit Wikipedia articles

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

When faculty use OERs, we aren’t just saving a student money on textbooks: we are directly impacting that student’s ability to enroll in, persist through, and successfully complete a course.[15] 

Even though 67% of college students in Florida and 54% of those in British Columbia[14] cannot afford to purchase at least one of their required course textbooks, we more readily attribute their inability to complete assigned readings to laziness and entitlement than to unaffordability.

Continuous quality improvement:

College students spend an average of $900 per year on textbooks—26 percent of the cost of tuition at a public, four-year university.

free sharing of educational resources with the world.

Clearly, the Internet has empowered us to copy and share with an efficiency never before known or imagined.

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

“mash up”

every person in the world enjoys free (no cost) access to the OER and free (no cost) permission to engage in the “5R” activities when using the OER

To reach the pinnacle of their profession, they often end up exploring one interesting feature of a single atoll. Interdisciplinarians, by contrast, are forever treating themselves to the intellectual equivalent of exploring exotic lands.

“problems of society do not come in discipline-shaped blocks”

the gap between disciplines has led to one of them relying on theories and data which are quite invalidated among the originating discipline

“man is the only one to treat not only his actions but his very self as the object of his reflection.”

those who wish to speed up the growth of knowledge should promote, or at least tolerate, interdisciplinary knowledge and research.

“The periods of greatest excitement and of expanded vision in our joint work as social psychologists have been during interdisciplinary efforts”

This cultural divide, in Snow’s view, entailed serious consequences for our creative, intellectual, and everyday life.

Interdisciplinary studies allows students to experiment and ask questions. It encourages them to follow their hearts and enjoy their undergraduate experiences. Learning should be exploratory and fun, exactly what interdisciplinary studies is trying to do.

undergraduate studies is an introduction to the world of learning

An overarching fear of interdisciplinarity is the “10,000 hour rule,” meaning interdisciplinary students might graduate as masters of nothing. Instead of graduating with a comprehensive understanding of a single discipline like anthropology or economics, they graduate with a smattering of knowledge, spread across many fields.

The communication barrier poses a unique challenge to interdisciplinarity: is collaboration possible without a common language?

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

Every tile plays a role in the outcome of a mosaic, but the mosaic wouldn’t exist if there wasn’t an artist, or group of artists, to put the tiles together.

Disciplines as Social Communities

Also they most likely are part of an association that probably hosts conferences where they can really come together as an entire social community and have discussion.

 It never really came to mind that teachers of the same subject were together during the school day simply to discuss developments in their field;

 I believe interdisciplinarity will grow out of its vast supply of disciplines and learn from history how to create a new methodology of evaluating and solving problems.

psychologists, school social workers, case managers, occupational therapists, physical therapists and nurses who are present in developing and preserving a child’s mental well-being

We know from many of history’s examples that when particular disciplines rule over a single issue, myriad unforeseen consequences may result. 

lack integration

now we need it to grow and show its potential.

If it ever seems as though the disciplines are scorned, the only thing we deem negative is their lack of integration with other disciplines.

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

College began to evolve from an elite privilege for only certain kinds of wealthy or powerful people to an essential career resource that could benefit any student.

During the eighteenth century, education was brought closer to the needs of everyday life by teaching disciplines such as history, geography, geometry, algebra, modern languages, navigation, and astronomy.

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

Understanding the past disciplines is relevant to understand the future disciplines.

in today’s society we have had the development of even more disciplines that add to the variety of knowledge within the world

very few undergraduates can actually define what a “discipline” is.

For instance, Stanford University created a MOOC in the fall of 2011 that had 160,000 students in attendance.

 At last, the government warmed up to the idea of online education and allowed federal financial aid for the courses.

There were no degrees awarded after completion, but it was a way for students to gain extra knowledge and skills.

there is no best method or focus for learning,

a mosque

Due to the fact that not many were literate, lessons were passed on verbally.

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

As time progressed, universities began to focus their efforts on religion and eventually evolved to where we are today.

But content, methods, and epistemologies are the central building blocks of disciplines, and it is helpful to understand these as you get started in Interdisciplinary Studies.

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

many parts

Setting in Context: 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.  This is called “setting the problem or issue in context.”

In order to understand why so many college students do poorly in the first semester at college, we may need to break the question up into parts and look at study time, social life, living away from home, economic issues, mental health, oppression, and more. Studying these parts will help us get a sense of the overall reasons for the problem.

Studying these parts will help us get a sense of the overall reasons for the problem.

organize our research approach

Sometimes we break problems down into smaller parts so that we can solve it piece by piece.

Note that the amalgamation quotient says nothing about quality: in some circumstances, a plain mango will surpass all the smoothies in the world; in others, only a fruit salad will do.

instead the delectable experience of the smoothie

amalgamated

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

“Interdisciplinarity is a more integrative approach to learning.”

On our campuses, we must create an intellectual climate that encourages faculty members and students to make connections among seemingly disparate disciplines, discoveries, events, and trends — and to build bridges among them that benefit the understanding of us all.

As a people, we need to understand where we were, where we are, and where we are going.

We must also help students gain knowledge of multiple disciplines and their interconnectedness.

prepares citizens for a life of learning

. By one estimate, college students typically spend less than half the time on their studies than the faculty expects.

when people do not know how to question deeply, to separate fact from fiction, and to give coherence and meaning to life, they can feel a deeply unsettling emptiness in their lives

As a society, we tend to pay lip service to the complexity of problems and then continue to gamble on simplistic solutions, such as building prisons to solve the crime and drug problems.

Instead 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

higher education is heading toward what I call the Home Depot approach to education, where there is no differentiation between consumption and digestion, or between information and learning, and no guidance — or even questioning — about what it means to be an educated and cultured person.

curriculum

80 percent said it is “very important” for them to find work that “will make a positive difference in people’s lives.”

because unlike many other majors where it is easy to feel trapped or to feel stuck in this routine that everyone who has graduated with your degree has gone through- the same process; this study has me standing alone and in this case, that isn’t a bad thing.

I will make the most of my opportunities!

which has ended up teaching me a lot about myself

You can be your own self and that is who you should want to be most!

metacognition

if everyone just stuck to guidelines and tradition, the world would never grow and would never have the chance to become any better.

It is so important to have different ideas that may even seem impossible.

how do we combine interdisciplinarity and education to make learning more relevant?

If people want to be successful in life, it makes sense to understand the big picture, which is, in a word, interdisciplinarity.

Due to the responsibility associated with interdisciplinarity, students must learn how to make concrete decisions, how to effectively combine multiple disciplines into a cohesive major, and how to know what they want.

“Work now, play later” sends the message to students that now is never good enough; that education will be relevant later.

When do rules and regulations pay off? The answer is never. 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. 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.

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.”

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?

One of the benefits of a common core trajectory is the sense of community it brings to education, a sense of community that some interdisciplinary students may not experience in the same way that traditional students experience it.

. Interdisciplinary studies allows students to enter college and assume the role of captain in their personalized exploration of knowledge

By eighteen, most students are excited about life and eager to experience what it has to offer, which is why they should be shown all the options.

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

If students wander around at their own will, these educators argued, they may leave school with an incomplete or inconclusive education.

Many educators disagreed with Eliot, arguing that schools exist to guide students

pursue his own imagination

advocacy for a curriculum based on students’ interests rather than a pre-established curriculum

Without these pre-established academic fields, interdisciplinary studies would not be possible.

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

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 want to know where my ones and zeros are stored

It allows them to demonstrate their learning to others beyond the classroom walls

And if a student owns their own domain, as she moves from grade to grade and from school to school, all that information – their learning portfolio – can travel with them

Schools routinely caution students about the things they post on social media, and the tenor of this conversation – particularly as translated by the media – is often tinged with fears that students will be seen “doing bad things” or “saying bad things” that will haunt them forever

I wanted them to see and be aware of all of the options and the control that they are giving up when services such as Facebook are their primary web presence

not only would acquire crucial technical skills for their digital lives but also would engage in work that provides richly teachable moments…. Fascinating and important innovations would emerge as students are able to shape their own cognition, learning, expression, and reflection in a digital age, in a digital medium. Students would frame, curate, share, and direct their own ‘engagement streams’ throughout the learning environment.

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.

students need a proprietary online space in order to be intellectually productive.

Even if students are encouraged to create online portfolios or to use services like Google Apps for Education in order to store all their work, they don't actually get to take that work with them when they move or graduate.

This can be a way to track growth and demonstrate new learning over the course of a student's school career -

"Within a week, the kids were able to understand what their options were and how their site was affected by changes they made. As time went on, we talked a lot more about technical issues (backup, recovery, privacy options, hosting laws in different countries, etc). But we also talked a lot more about digital citizenship, safety, control, design, etc. The kids saw the site much more as their own and their responsibility."

Nor do schools give students the opportunity to decide what and when and how that public, online display should look like.

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

"I wanted them to see and be aware of all of the options and the control that they are giving up when services such as Facebook are their primary web presence,"

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.

their own domain - the dot com (or dot net, etc) of the student's choosing.

growing number of other schools believe that students need a proprietary online space in order to be intellectually productive.

fail to give students themselves a voice, let alone some assistance in deciding what to share online. Students have little agency when it comes to education technology - much like they have little agency in education itself.

unscrupulous

Student privacy has become one of the hottest issues in education

Can ‘ownership’ and ‘assignment’ go hand in hand?

if students still see their audience as a teacher with a red pen, then nothing changes.

Traditional assignments don’t necessarily empower students when they have to post them in a public space.

It puts them in a much better position to control their work, their data, their identity online.