Activity 2 Homework

Teaching Scenario

1. Authority is constructed and contextual


2. Learning Outcomes/ Knowledge practices:

2.1. Students should be able to define different types of authority such as subject expertise( Scholarship), society position (public office or title), or special experience (participating in an historical event)

2.2. Use makers of authority, to determine the credibility of sources

2.3. Recognize that authoritative content may be packaged formally or informally and may include audio, visual an non-print sources.

3. Material Needed

3.1. Journal articles or popular magazine article

3.2. Blog and Facebook pages

3.3. Youtube video or vimeo recordings

4. Activities

4.1. Students should look up articles in peer reviewed journals e.g. Journal of Information Literacy. Students can go to the Homeopathic and interview them. Students should also look up in formation in a popular magazine e.g. You Magazine. Students can also go into the community to look for the elderly people who are well aware of the use of alternative medicine.

Students who are beginners can identify the authority of the article by the author and the full citation that is given at the end of the article.
The advance student will look at the theories and concepts that are used in the text.

4.2. Students needs to find information on a blog  or Facebook page about alternative medicine. Students have to look at the blogs because there are blogs that are been put up by subject specialist e.g Wilson for Sense and Reference. Students can also look at the slide shares to look at the PowerPoint that the people put on theses slide-share power point anybody can put up power points.

4.3. Students can find Youtube - or vimeo videos about alternative medicine and the use of it. Student can also look at podcast that lecturers compiled at other universities about the topic of alternative medicine.

5. Show how each activity relates to the Knowledge Practice or Learning Outcomes

5.1. Students should be able to define different types of authority such as subject expertise

Student must be able to differentiate between primary and secondary sources, and also between popular magazine articles and scholarly articles.

5.2. Use makers of authority, to determine the credibility of sources

Students who are beginners can identify the authority of the article by the author and the full citation that is given at the end of the article.
The advance student will look at the theories and concepts that are used in the text.

5.3. Recognize that authoritative content may be packaged formally or informally and may include audio, visual an non-print sources.

By the use of YouTube the student that authoritative content can be package formally or informally e.g. Fisher who talk about copyright in his YouTube videos. He is a law academic at Harvard. On the other hand you can the man on the street who make a youtube video.