We’re hoping to rely on our loyal readers rather than erratic ads. Reductionism is a direct result of us being humans. Thinking of getting a Ph.D.?

We thank you! You can also buy a print version for $6.50. I won’t be naive to say that all research is based solely on saving ourselves, there is substantial military interest as well. what is that supposed to mean? Reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNIbhRufPQI. You only have a dirty mind. That’s funny. At the end of the day, what would you do? The Illustrated Guide to a Ph.D. is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 licence. Good for you sir. What an excellent way to view a PhD! in Education | September 26th, 2012 47 Comments. Original work "The Illustrated Guide to a PhD" by Dr. Matt Might. A masters now is what a BS was to our parents. lol, The way I see it is that it’s mostly a preferable way of spending one’s time to many other options which do not allow us this luxury. If you try to teach inside the colored area, they already know it, and you are wasting his time. what if the circle looks like a euclidean circle from above, but really its hyperbolic?

That little bump gets more prominent with each new research paper published, each hopefully more impactful than the PhD project itself. In About-Face, UK Will Not Allow Huawei To Be Involved In Any Part Of... Universal Orlando Parks Will Reopen June 5 Despite Risk Of... Pro-Privacy Lawmakers Secure A Vote To Protect Browsing Data From... Jurassic World: Dominion Is Definitely Not The Planned End Of The... White Twitch Talk Show Host Finally Drops 'Rajj Patel' Moniker, Everything We Know About The PlayStation 5. Keep pushing. I think there is, however, a difference between the Humanities and the Sciences in this. If you only have one discipline your whole academic career will sit there like a bulldog fart. Right? Imagine a circle that contains all of human knowledge: By the time you finish elementary school, you know a little: By the time you finish high school, you know a bit more: With a bachelor’s degree, you gain a specialty: A master’s degree deepens that specialty: Reading research papers takes you to the edge of human knowledge: You push at the boundary for a few years: And, that dent you’ve made is called a Ph.D.: Of course, the world looks different to you now: Keep pushing. For whatever it may be worth: As the number of dents increases around the ring, the sum total of human knowledge increases. ©2006-2020 Open Culture, LLC. Read below for the illustrated guide to a Ph.D. (The money goes to charity.) We never spam. [Matt has licensed the guide for sharing with special terms under the Creative Commons license.] The instructor needs to present material outside of the student’s circle of knowledge, but close enough that the student can grasp it and incorporate it into and expand his circle. Matthew Might, a computer science professor at the University of Utah, writes: “Every fall, I explain to a fresh batch of Ph.D. students what a Ph.D. is. You can also buy a print version for $6.50. This is a personal blog. What about the post doc (or post docts) ?

As a doctoral student in Educational Technology, I’ve been heavily influenced by a theory of learning and knowledge known as connectivism.

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