LBS 707 Information Literacy

In this session we were introduced to a concept that I have been experiencing all my life. Unfortunately, however I was not mentally aware that this concept has been 'coined' already. The above picture demonstrates the term called ' Threshold Concepts '. It in essence describes this thing that I have experienced my whole life, where one is learning something but one does not actually quite grasp it's meaning. So, one struggles quite alot to this master this thing, it being either a skill or something. As one is in this struggling process, one is left feelling very anxous, crippled with fear and in a state of feelling stuck. Sometimes one feels stupid and wants to give up. But when one choses to push through, one passes onto a state of 'knowing and understanding'. In this phase, one has feellings of happiness, one is proud of oneself, one feels like you have won the lottery. It is when one reaches this phase that, the threshold concept has been mat...

In todays session we leant about LEARNING THEORIES . In essence we have been 'learning' new things from the cradle and will do so onto the grave. It's almost like breathing, we know we doing it and its natural to us to do so. Learning is a part of our everyday life and its interesting to note that a few theorists has designed theories and models to learning for this thing we do everyday. So, in class we were taught 4 baisc Learning theories. They include the following: Behavourism Learning Theory -  is a systematic approach to the understanding of human and animal behavior. It assumes that all behaviors are either reflexes produced by a response to certain stimuli in the environment, or a consequence of that individual's history, including especially reinforcement and punishment, together with the individual's current motivational state and controlling stimuli.  This approach in the classroom setting assumes that the  teacher knows...