Information Literacy 707

Scholarship as Conversation

Topic:
"Drug addictions (Tik) among youth in Cape Town."

Learning outcomes:
Students should be able to:

• be part of an online community and participate in scholarly conversations.
• know the importance of evaluating contributions made by others.
• know that there are various platforms where a particular topic is discussed.

Activities:

• Find a blog where scholars and researchers have conversations on drug addictions like "Tik" in Cape Town. Visit the blog at least once a week for 3 months to check for new contributions from other contributors. Participate in these conversation.
• Critically respond to at least two blog posts.
• Find and cite online books and journal articles relating to drug addictions like "tik" in Cape Town.

Knowledge Practice linked to activities:
Students should be able to:

• contribute to scholarly conversation at an appropriate level, such as local online community.
• critically evaluate contributions made by others in particular information environment.
• recognize that a given scholarly work may not represent the only-or even the majority- perspective on the issue.

Disposition linked to activities:
Learners who are developing their information literate abilities:

• recognize they are often entering into an ongoing scholarly conversation and not a finished conversation, and see themselves as contributors to scholarship rather than only consumers of it.
• suspend judgment on the value of a particular piece of scholarship until the larger context for the scholarly conversation is better understood.
• recognize that scholarly conversations take place in various venues.