- Nov 2017
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Customized majors: when students conceive of, design, and build their own majors, they ask critical questions about education that we often don’t invite them to ask in the course of traditional college. Why is this a field? Where is this field going? How do each of these courses contribute to the overall integrity of the major? Why is this worth studying? Why does this matter, to the student and to the world? When students write their program statements to get their majors approved, they ask fundamental questions that help them see the relevance of even the least appealing (to them) courses in their programs, and gives them a sense of ownership over the journey. This connects to #3 above, and moves students into the driver’s seat right from the start.
This is a very graduate school level of thinking. For me , sport psychology is not offered as an undergraduate course anywhere in the US, but through a customized major like this, it forces us to relate our classes directly to our majors. No other student is forced to do that. A psychology major may know what they want to with a psychology degree, but ultimately they need to go to graduate school and focus in on one specific aspect of psychology. I have been relating every one of my psychology classes towards sport for the last two years, and in my opinion I am very far ahead of the game for when I apply to graduate school.
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- Oct 2017
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press.rebus.community press.rebus.community
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(e.g., all connections are “friends,” or all connections are “followers”)
Do we need a new social media network?
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Buy one, get one: The “buy one, get one” sale has become a fixture in American advertising. Implied in the special offer is the promise that when you buy one item, like a pizza or T-shirt, you’ll get a second one free. However, there is a more literal way of interpreting the phrase: when you buy something, you should actually get the thing you paid for. Imagine paying in advance for a week’s vacation in a cabin by a beautiful lake, only to be charged a second time when you arrive and check in. You would never stand for such a thing, because everyone understands that when you buy one, you should get one.
What an interesting thought. I'm trying to critically examine this quote keeping in mind that the idea of buy 1 get 1 free deals are getting two for the same price of one. I would love to collaborate about this.
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In fact, sharing is the sole means by which education is effected. If an instructor is not sharing what he or she knows with students, there is no education happening.
Everyone had the right idea about this quote. Nice thinking. As an aspiring Psychologist of Athletes, It is important to have a creative mind set as so everybody has a different psyche. More related to the quote- Sometimes the student needs to share information back to the teacher in order to sympose new knowledge (mainly showing that this isn't one sided). I wish that more people would see the importance of sharing information. Open Education Resources are a great way to get different inputs, but the only way to form a new way of thinking is by collaborating in real time. I noticed Twitter is an amazing resource in this day and age to communicate with people who share the same passions and interests of bettering their professions.
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- Sep 2017
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general-ed requirements
most required gen ed classes hardly teach these skills. Many students are so uninterested in these gen eds they either don't show up or do not try to learn, just try to pass
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That means getting the major requirements “out of the way” in order to ensure graduation
spending thousands of dollars to get a course "out of the way" does not seem reasonable for anyone in this situation, besides the money makers
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When Plato was 40, he created the open-air “Academy”
Every schooling system needs an outdoor classroom in my opinion!
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