LBS 707 - Threshold Concepts

Threshold Concepts 

The class on Tuesday, was an eye-opener for me ideologically, one does not seems to understand a phenomenon you did not experience it, but when you are through the path of what seems impossible and difficult, you can glance back and be proud of what you have achieve. The fact that we will be of the first students to complete this course in Africa has actually made me realize how fortunate we are and that we should put every effort possible to grasp what Ms Mohamed is teaching us.

The term "threshold" in my understand means that there is a door and when you enter, there is much more to learn and gain on the other side, knowledge that you did not have before entering that door. The lecturer shared the five "Threshold Concepts" with the class. 

Transformative - when you learn something new from another disciple it changes the way you think - it involves conceptual shift - it becomes part of who we are, how we see and how we feel. 

Integrative - When a learner make meaningful connections between separate disciplines.

Irreversible - Once a learner understood, the learner is unlikely to unlearn/forget it. 

Bounded - This concept deals with when the boundaries of a particular discipline are unique to the discipline

Troublesome -  When learners think that they understand the work, but yet seems like finding difficulties again as they go along with their studies, for example in their research study, and have to look for other or extra information again.

I was quite excited after the lecture, cannot wait for the lecture of next week.

Information Literacy Education LBS 707

                                               A  weekly Reflection of the Course 

What I learned in the class -What additional links, if any, discovered, eg. links to readings or interesting sites pertaining to the course - Feelings about participating in the course -Working relationship with colleagues in the class

The class was very interesting on Tuesday.  I am struggling a little bit to create the Blog because I missed the first lecture, but thanks to Ms Mohammed and my colleagues I am able to create one.

Information Literacy is a new concept for me, but yet I am fascinated by it. The fact that I can start my own blog is very cool, also the fact that my fellow students can read and comment on it. As dealing and only using the google search engine and sending and receiving of e-mails, but to be able to create your own blog is really interesting for me.

The lecture was insightful for me, although it was too much theory for now, as Ms Mohammed said it will be too much theory for the next few lectures. I am not really very clued-up with the library environment and therefore would be a listener most of the time and absorbing all the information that are shared in class.

I think I have a good working relationship with the colleagues in class, maybe as we are together from the first semester, but also very learnsome as most of them are in library environments already, therefore learning a lot during class conversations as well.

During my reading I came across this article that I would like the share with the group.

http://teaching.uncc.edu/sites/teaching.uncc.edu/files/media/files/file/InstructionalTechnologies/InformationLiteracy.pdf