I have also learned how many connections you can make with other faculty or colleagues from different institutions. Using twitter can be powerful if used in the right way. I hope to continue to use twitter to make connections and expand my education through this social media app.

This tweet can be seen below. Later on we saw that AMSA National had actually retweeted our tweet and made us the current homepage of AMSA’s Facebook page

a disconnect between classroom and everyday learning,

I constructed a blog and twitter

‘But how am I going to learn BIOLOGY this way?’ I remember frantically asking myself as I scrambled to make sense of the course that I had specifically requested to be in.

How do you see the roles of the learner and the teacher?

Since the invention of the Internet, copyright law has been “strengthened” to further restrict the Internet’s copying and sharing capabilities. While existing laws, business models, and educational practices make it difficult for instructors and learners to leverage the full power of the Internet to access high-quality, affordable learning materials, open educational resources can be freely copied and shared (and revised and remixed) without breaking the law.

Those educators who share the most thoroughly of themselves with the greatest proportion of their students are the ones we deem most successful.

There would be no place for interdisciplinarity if the disciplines didn’t come first, but collaboration is sometimes just as important, if not more important, than individualized focus.

The interconnected of life is so complex and massive that it almost seems counterintuitive to teach students single disciplines, completely separated from one another.

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 living their lives in preparation for life, when will they start living?

In a study conducted by William Newell and James Davis in 1988, researchers found that students who study interdisciplinarity are more likely to develop: affective cognitive skills; reading, writing, speaking, and thinking skills; higher curiosity for learning; more creativity and originality in thought processes; and an ability to integrate traditional ideas with current ideas.

Education is exploration, a phenomenon that cannot be neatly packaged and universally distributed.

Interdisciplinary studies, as a concept, would not be possible without the foundational structure of disciplinary studies.

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 community. 

We see the roots of interdisciplinarity beginning to show in society; now we need it to grow and show its potential.

Without the disciplines, interdisciplinarity would have nothing to build on, nothing to incorporate or weave together in order to find solutions to world problems.

There are some main disciplines such as: Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Formal Sciences, and Professions and Applied Sciences. Under the main disciplines are the sub-disciplines. The sub-disciplines are considered branches off of the disciplines which encompass fields like Psychology, Visual Arts, or Physics.

This academy was an original idea because Socrates was skeptical about a teacher’s ability to transmit knowledge directly to a student.

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.

No people in our own time could rationally proclaim that they knew everything about everything, or even everything about their own fields . . .

First, and most obviously, there is the content of the discipline. Content is generally what is “covered” by coursework in the discipline. It can include facts, concepts, ideas, and texts. Content is the what of a discipline.

since breaking a problem or concept down may help us see the different disciplines that are involved, which will then allow us to organize our research approach.

Fourth, and perhaps most important, is the degree of blending or integration. 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.

where different disciplines are represented by the different fruits that are placed together in a bowl but which do not mix much or change shape themselves. Interdisciplinarity (Photo CCBYNCND Anna Wyrwol) “Interdisciplinarity” is more like a fruit smoothie, where the disciplines are blended together–integrated– to create something new.

Without liberal arts to provide a context for technical training, young people cannot be expected to understand the general nature and structure of our society, the role of the university, or the importance of values. The university’s lack of a meaningful liberal arts curriculum understandably sends many anxious students into the safer harbors of study that lead directly to positions in the job market.

For most students, college is a time for self-discovery, for developing passionate interests, and for trying to weave them into a meaningful career.

I am creating and envisioning a possibility that others may not see or may not have the confidence to direct. That possibility is going to open so many doors for me.

For instance, public assignments tap into fears of public embarrassment.

In building that personal cyberinfrastructure, students not only would acquire crucial technical skills for their digital lives but also would engage in work that provides richly teachable moments ranging from multimodal writing to information science, knowledge management, bibliographic instruction, and social networking.

Sometimes, however, 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.

By contrast, he introduced his students to open source platforms like WordPress, teaching them about Web standards like HTML and CSS.

the domain and all its content are the student’s to take with them. It is, after all, their education, their intellectual development, their work.

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