Critical literacy through arguementation

This is a presentation I made to the Papakura High School staff. I did this in conjunction with Mark Lendrum the Head of English. In this presentation, we detail our learnings from the developing in digital worlds PLD. We came to the conclusion that argumentation involves sharing and in the high school environment this is best done through blogging and blog commenting.

Argumentation and blog commenting is something I am going to focus on with my Year 10 Health class. The topic I plan to discuss is should cannabis be decriminalised in New Zealand. This is based on our drugs topic and a relevant issue with the political situation currently