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Tag Archives: Interdisciplinarity
The Rise of the New Groupthink – NYTimes.com
The Rise of the New Groupthink – NYTimes.com. I’ve long suspected that many (if not most) people who insist on groupwork for everything do so because they can’t really produce anything on their own. Working in groups is great and … Continue reading
Ed Tech is an Interdisciplinary Field
So why is it possible to get an Ed Tech degree by taking ONLY Education courses? It shouldn’t be. IT (Information Technology), Education, Management, … are all APPLIED disciplines – if all you know is the one of these, you … Continue reading
Why Interdisciplinary Teams Often Don’t Work (though they could….)
I came across this the other day (thanks! to Bonnie Bracey Sutton) Building an Interdisciplinary Identity in a (Mostly) Non-Interdisciplinary Academic World – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education. There are a few things in here that really struck … Continue reading
Be professional enough to do a decent literature review…
SHEESH! I get a lot of papers to review in Game Studies; Serious Games; Educational Games., etc. I used to learn a lot from reading these papers. Not anymore. Not only is much of what I read “old news” (i.e. … Continue reading
It’s all a matter of point of view…
for a computer scientist, everything is an algorithm. to a musician, everything is a song. to a writer, everything is a story. to thespians, everything is a play. to a film-maker, everything is a movie. to an educator, everything is … Continue reading
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