Computers are something that have come a long way over the past few years. A computer is so complicated but yet so simple all at the same time. It is simple because you can look up whatever you think about on this device and it will give you an answer. It's complicated because there are a lot of different things that go into making a computer.
When computers were first invented in 1946 they were these huge heavy machines. They were invented by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly at the University of Pennsylvania. The first computer occupied about 1,800 square feet and used about 18,000 vacuum tubes, weighing almost 50 tons. Newer computers are way smaller weighing 5 pounds and easy to bring everywhere. Computers now come in a desktop form where you can use them at home, offices and schools or in a laptop form which you can bring just about anywhere and fits in every bad. Laptops come in all shapes and sizes. This 5 pound square thing with no wires can answer all of our question and can be used just about anywhere in the world. This is because of mathematics, communication, engineering, business and programming. All of these disciplines go into computers. Mathematics are involved for the data the computer runs on. Computer engineering requires excellent math skills, both for the construction of hardware and the programming of software. Communication is important because no computer engineer does everything on their own, they are nearly always part of a team. Teams need to communicate well by listening to everyone's thoughts and ideas. Software and hardware engineers are important for building the computer from the inside out. Programming is also important for building the computer because it helps speed them up and increases the power they have. Business is a very big part of computers because there is tons of advertising, price competition, sales, customer service; the list goes on. Many different businesses sell and fix computers to make money. Overall it takes many different disciplines to build and sell computers. Computers nowadays are used in just about everything, from cell phones to cars and planes. The computers in cars are used for oxygen sensors, wheel pressure sensors, air bag control, the radio ect. Computers in planes translates the pilot's actions into electronic signals, which computers use to manipulate flight controls. The computers constantly monitor pilot input and prevent the aircraft from exceeding its flight envelope. Who knew computers were used in so many different things?
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11/29/2018 0 Comments REVISED INTERVIEW ASSIGNMENTWe were given an assignment where we had to interview a professor in a field we expect might be part of our major. With that being said I chose Lynne Bates as the professor I would interview. Professor Bates is a health education teacher here at Plymouth State University. Health has always been something that has interested me because it is such an important part of our lives. Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease. The reason I chose Professor Bates to do my interview on is because I have her as one of my health teachers and I really enjoy her principles of health class. She also teaches a disease safety and the environment class. Her principles of health class has and is still teaching me how to explore the fundamental issues related to health. Learning outcomes include understanding all the dimensions of health, the overarching foundations of health behaviors, how to access health literature, national health behavior and guidelines/recommendations.
Professor Bates did not start school studying health education, when she originally started school she started as an anthropology archaeologist major but she did not find it to be as interesting as she thought it would be. She picked this major going into college because when she was in fourth grade one of her friends dads was an anthropology archaeologist and they went on trips all around the world and she thought that would be so much fun. Once she realized that health education was what she was really interested in she loved it. While studying this she learned social sciences that were drawn from the biological, environmental, psychological, physical and medical sciences to promote health and prevent disease. With this degree she had a few jobs throughout her career, such as a medical technologist, a fitness instructor, a high school teachers and a professor. Professor Bates continued to work at a public high school for awhile during the day and would teach a couple classes at Plymouth State during the night. Once she retired she is now only teaching classes here in Plymouth. She really enjoys working at Plymouth State University and all her students that she gets to teach. Professor Bates is a great example of how our interdisciplinary educations are important in the approaching future. She teaches all about different branches of heath and how they relate to our lives. I really enjoy having her as one of my teachers. 11/29/2018 0 Comments Revised EPORT POST #2What attracted me to interdisciplinary approaches to learn was that it provided me with a flexible degree specifically oriented to my career goals. I started off school with a major in biology but after taking a few classes in this field I soon realized that it wasn’t for me. I really enjoyed taking the biology courses like biology 1 and 2 but I didn’t like the other courses that followed like chemistry. Chemistry was very hard for me I just couldn't understand it as well as I would have liked to. Once I realized I didn’t want to stick to biology I was trying to find another major that interested me but instead of finding just one I found two, psychology and health. Psychology has been something I have always been interested in since high school. Psychology is so broad and there's always something new to learn which I really enjoy. I also have always been into health because it’s something that is constantly changing and something everyone should pay attention to. I thought how great would it be if I could combined biology, psychology and health into one major and interdisciplinary studies helped me do that.
Interdisciplinary has already helped improve my education and my future. It has given me a better look on what I want to do for my career. When you pick a major you usually just concentrate on the courses that are required to get your degree and sometimes those courses can seem to be repeating and get boring. Interdisciplinary has improved my education by letting me branch out to different majors that interest me instead of just focusing on one. By branching out to different majors you learn so much new knowledge in different fields but that you can combined together to help you in everyday life and problem solving. This knowledge will be helpful when I am looking for a job. I found this quote from Ten Cheers for Interdisciplinary by Moti Nissani to be very interesting, “We need to reconceptualize our model of disciplinary growth and specialization, adopting a more organic model that accounts for the intricate links among the many specializations.” There are so many different fields that could benefit from this. When you go to get a job they are going to want to see something about you that stands out from the other people applying for the same job and you'll be able to say how you studied two different majors in college. Not a lot of people can say they have done that. My experiences with Interdisciplinary learning so far has sharpened my ideas about the world knowledge. A project that really opened my eye and has helped shape my knowledge is my PLN plan in my IDS course. This project has really explained to me what interdisciplinary means and how it will help me in the world. My PLN plan helps me learn new things everyday about the world of health and psychology. My PLN plan was to make a twitter account where I could follow different health and psychology accounts and learn new information about these fields. This project has really helped me understand social media better and how I can use it to get my ideas out into the world. A quote that really stood out to me in the Yuval Noah Harari on what the year 2050 has in store for humankind article was “Most important of all will be the ability to deal with change, to learn new things and to preserve your mental balance in unfamiliar situations. In order to keep up with the world of 2050, you will need not merely to invent new ideas and products you will above all need to reinvent yourself again and again.” This really stood out to me because the world is constantly changing which means we need to keep up with it by thinking of new ideas and being open to new things. By keeping an open mind to these changes it will be easier for us to succeed in the future. 11/28/2018 0 Comments scholarly article The scholarly article I read was called An Interdisciplinary Dialog About Teaching and Learning Dialogically By Carol Thompson and Michael Kleine. This article talks about how students aren’t known by who they are, what they are reading or how they study and learn. Students are usually known for their names or the number next to their name in the gradebook. I find this to be very true, most of my teachers didn’t even learn my name till the end of the semester, so they definitely don’t know how I study or learn. These authors found a new way to reconnect teachers and students and how to promote deep learning while still teaching two disciplines. They said “we believe a dialogical approach reinforces core values of education, i.e., those of listening, critically weighing ideas, and using speaking combined with writing to create a profound relationship between students and other students and between students and their instructors.” (Thompson & Kleine, Page 174) I think this is awesome. Students and teachers should have a good connection with each other so that it’s easier for them to teach and us to learn. I find when I am more comfortable with a teacher I seem to ask more questions and join into class conversations. This article shares their experience with learning dialogically in interdisciplinary studies. Dialogical learning involves writing and speaking with no lectures. In my beginning experience with interdisciplinary, I think by getting students to speak in class or even in groups is a great way for everyone to get their ideas out in the open and to talk about them. I also think writing and speaking are a great ways to learn instead of lectures. I find lectures to be boring and sometimes hard to pay attention to, but when we are able to write in our own words out information I think we remember it better and use it more in our daily lives. After trying out the dialogical learning approach, teachers said ”some of our assumptions about the nature of education and teaching itself began to evolve.” (Thompson & Kleine, Page 182) I think this has really opened up the eyes of teachers and students and how it is helping students learn better. The teachers are starting to have a better relationship with the students they are teaching and I think that is very important.
Thompson, C. & Kleine, M. (2014) An Interdisciplinary Dialog About Teaching and Learning Dialogically. Innovative Higher Education, 40. Retrieved from: http://web.a.ebscohost.com.libproxy.plymouth.edu/ehost/ 11/28/2018 0 Comments Open pedagogy I found all of this week's reading to be very interesting and informative. In the first reading, Why Openness in Education?, the part that stood out to me was “education is sharing.” We learn from teachers and professors sharing what they know either by speaking or in textbooks. We take in what they teach us and we share it with others in our lives. Not everyone gets this experience because it is expensive. This article says that “college textbook prices have increased at nearly four times the rate of inflation for all finished goods since 1994. College students spend an average of $900 per year on textbooks—26 percent of the cost of tuition at a public, four-year university.” (Wiley & Green, Chap 6) It is hard for some people to afford higher education if they are in a low class family or have many siblings. The only way they might be able to afford it, is if they take out loans which can put them in a lot dept. Most students don’t even know what they want to major in their first year of college. Derosa and Jhangiani did a great job with the article Open Pedagogy and asking the question “What are your hopes for education, particularly for higher education?” Many students change their major at least one while being in college and many people after college change their career multiple times in their life. Open pedagogy is nice for people who can’t go to college either because of money or other responsibilities they have. Being able to access free textbooks online is awesome. Having our IDS textbook free online makes it easier to bring with us everywhere and use it at anytime. Instead of carrying a heavy and expensive textbook around in your backpack that you could lose and you don't want to leave at home incase you need it, you can just open your computer and its there. In the article Pedagogy and the Logic of Platforms I found it interesting that they called the web “broken.” I didn’t understand what they meant by broken at first, I thought the web worked just fine, until I kept reading. The article says “The web is not broken in this regard: a web based on surveillance, personalization, and monetization works perfectly well for particular constituencies, but it doesn't work quite as well for persons of color, lower-income students, and people who have been walled off from information.” (Gilliard) I found this to be very true. Open Pedagogy helps these people still learn while living outside the classroom in a way that has an impact on the greater community. In the article What an Open Pedagogy Class Taught Me About Myself, the author talks about taking a course she knew nothing about and how it talk her so much about herself and the way we learn things. She said “Without taking an open pedagogy class I would never have realized this about myself. I now approach information, and the way I learn and teach, in an entirely new fashion. I found that I have changed my approach in other classes that I’m taking this semester and it has benefited me greatly. I now see the world a bit differently, and find myself constantly connecting everything I do/ come across.” (TheChcExplored) All these articles about open pedagogy have taught me that students learning information that actually interests them, that they will remember it and use it in their everyday lives.
11/7/2018 0 Comments interdisciplinary success storyComputers are something that have come a long way over the past few years. A computer is so complicated but yet so simple all at the same time. It is simple because you can look up whatever you think about on this device and it will give you an answer. It's complicated because there are a lot of different things that go into making a computer.
When computers were first invented in 1946 they were these huge heavy machines. They were invented by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly at the University of Pennsylvania. The first computer occupied about 1,800 square feet and used about 18,000 vacuum tubes, weighing almost 50 tons. Newer computers are way smaller weighing 5 pounds and easy to bring everywhere. This 5 pound square thing with no wires can answer all of our question and can be used just about anywhere in the world. This is because of mathematics, communication, engineering, business and programming. All of these disciplines go into computers. Mathematics are involved for the data the computer runs on. Computer engineering requires excellent math skills, both for the construction of hardware and the programming of software. Communication is important because no computer engineer does everything on their own, they are nearly always part of a team. Software and hardware engineers are important for building the computer from the inside out. Programming is also important for building the computer because it helps speed them up and increases the power they have. Business is a very big part of computers because there is tons of advertising, price competition, sales, customer service; the list goes on. Many different businesses sell and fix computers to make money. Overall it takes many different disciplines to build and sell computers. |
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