In Scholarly is a conversation teaching and learning and research are social process involving dialogue through discussion, thinking and writing. They are also situated in specific cultural practises which tend to be negotiated in disciplinary communities. Online scholarly platform such as blog, twitter, slide expand the opportunities for student to engage with peer, practitioners and experts in the disciplines and students become contributors

And the lecturers have a role in developing students, to get them familiar with source of evidence, methods and the modes that they can use to contribute to the conversation at an appropriate level and encourage students to critically evaluate contribution made by other participatory information environment including the classroom. That what we are doing in this last two week in our classroom and we had selected sources and mode of communication

The topic is" Drugs at use by learners in Cape Town "


 

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Activities 

1.Student must read this 3 articles, one of which is a rebuttal to other

(a).Peltzer, K 2008, 'DRUG INVOLVEMENT AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS AT SUICIDE RISK IN CAPE TOWN', [DROGY MEDZI ŠTUDENTMI STREDNÝCH ŠKÔL S RIZIKOM SAMOVRAŽDY (KAPSKÉ MESTO)], Studia Psychologica, vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 323-334

(b).Flisher, A, Townsend, L, Chikobvu, P, Lombard, C, & King, G 2010, 'Substance Use and Psychosocial Predictors of High School Dropout in Cape Town, South Africa', Journal Of Research On Adolescence (Wiley-Blackwell), 20, 1, pp. 237-255, Academic Search Complete, EBSCOhost, viewed 17 August 2015.

(c).Plüddemann, A, Flisher, A, McKetin, R, Parry, C, & Lombard, C 2010, 'A prospective study of methamphetamine use asa predictor of high school non-attendance inCape Town, South Africa', Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention & Policy, 5, pp. 25-31, Academic Search Complete, EBSCOhost, viewed 17 August 2015.

2. The second activity students should discuss and critically analyses this articles and reflective in blog post within a profession social network

3.Watch a two youtube, critical analysis and evaluate the ideals presented by the movies and present their  opinions in front of the class 

 www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jvGuvMk9b

www.wkyc.com/.../Wake-A-Child-keeps-deprived-S-A

hree learning outcome 

• The student must be able to explore and converse about the topic and the conversation is going on and on 
  
  

•  The learners will be able to understand that scholarly conversation can contribute to discussion  and blogging by engaging other scholarly and expert on the topic
  To  engage the learners and conversation about very conflict  and create a poster

• The learners will learn be evaluate the contribution made by other students in the blogger and the will be conflict of ideas