Research as inquiry: Design a teaching instruction.

Explore the psychological impact of crime on teenagers in Cape Town

                  

Learning outcome: 

Students should be able to:

•  determine an appropriate scope of investigation.
•  employ critical skills to evaluate information.
•  organize information in meaningful ways.

Design 3 activities:

1. Go on the internet and find 3 sholarly conversations about crime in Cape Town by C Lemanski.Comment and add your opinion and post the link on twitter. Invite you twitter contacts into this conversation, ask their views and how they feel about it.
2. Write a two page essay without any aid using your own head knowledge. Evaluate sources cited in scholarly conversations and review the 3 scholarly sources with yours. Make changes if you have to. 
3. Formulate research questions and decide what type of research methods will go well with the study.

Disposition:

1. Activity one links to disposition: Consider research as an open-ended exploration and engagement with information.
2. Activity 2 links to the disposition:  Willingness to refine or change the direction, method, or scope of research based  on new insights
3. Activity 3 links to disposition:  Value intellectual curiosity in developing questions and learning new investigative methods.

 

Scholarship as conversation

Teaching Library Science undergraduates with social media:

Learning outcomes:  Students will:

• 1.      recognize they are often entering into an ongoing scholarly conversation, not a finished conversation.
• 2.       identify the contribution that particular articles, books and other scholarly pieces make to disciplanary  knowledge.
• 3.      understand how to understand and analyze a scholarly article/videos and identify and understand all the parts of the article/video.

I have developed the following class activities:

Go on Twitter and discuss or reflect on any you tube clip of your choice:

1. Find online books or articles that you came across that were written in the past year on the topic you researching. Make important notes and post it on a twitter blog where you discuss it with other scholars interested in this topic.
2. Find 2 professional social media sites and share you opinion where you have an ongoing scholary conversation on this topic. 
3. Critically analyze the 2 professional social media sites you selected and share what you think of whatever they contributed to this discussion.

Disposition:

• Students will recognize there is always new research being done and they are often entering into an on-going scholarly conversation and not a finished conversation.
• While doing their research and adding their input students see themselves as contributors to scholarship rather than only consumers of it.
• By critically analyzing the social 2 social media sites, students suspend judgment on the value of a particular piece of scholarship until the larger context for the scholarly conversation is better understood.

Information Literacy

Information Literacy

Threshold:

‘Threshold Concepts’ may
  be considered to be “akin
  to passing through a portal”
  or “conceptual gateway”
  that opens up “previously
  inaccessible way[s] of
  thinking about something”
  (Meyer and Land)

Transformative: Once understood, a threshold concept changes the way in which the student views the discipline. 

Troublesome: Threshold concepts are likely to be troublesome for the student.

Irreversible: Given their transformative potential, threshold concepts are also likely to be irreversible, i.e. they are difficult to unlearn.

Bounded: A threshold concept will probably delineate a particular conceptual space, serving a specific and limited purpose. 

Discursive: Meyer and Land suggest that the crossing of a threshold will incorporate an enhanced and extended use of language.   

Reconstitutive: "Understanding a threshold concept may entail a shift in learner subjectivity, which is implied through the transformative and discursive aspects already noted. Such reconstitution is, perhaps, more likely to be recognised initially by others, and also to take place over time (Smith)".    

This is a really interesting course as it allows you to think outside the box.  
  
 To learn more about Threshold, follow the link.
http://www.etl.tla.ed.ac.uk//docs/ETLreport4.pdf 

Information Literacy

LBS 707
22/07/2015

Learning Theories 
This week I have learned about the different types of learning theories. We discussed 3 types in class:

1. Behaviourism
2. Cognitivism
3. Constructivism    

The lecturer also explained the 3 theories very briefly, and we jot down important notes during the lecture. At the end of the lecture, we did a short assessment about what we have learned. This is important to know because not all people learn the same way.When we understand the different learning theories, we will also understand students/people better.

I personally enjoyed the lecture because I have a great interest in psychology. I forever find myself doing research on various psychological topics.

I am a people's person. I can work in groups when I am in class because I get along with all kinds of people.

Check out the following link to read more about LEARNING THEORIES.

http://education-textbooks.info/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/Human%20Learning%205th%20Edition%20by%20Jeanne%20Ellis%20Ormrod%20-%20Keeping%20It%20Real%20In%20Learning%20Not%20Just%20Another%20Textbook%20All%20Parents%20Need%20This%20Book.pdf