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Authentic Learning
- Students feel motivated by
solving real-world problems.
- Learning-by-doing is the
most effective way to learn.
- Authentic learning typically focuses on real-world,
complex problems and their solutions, using
role-playing exercises, problem-based activities, case
studies, and participation in virtual communities of
practice.
- Nine Elements of
Authentic Learning
- Provide authentic contexts
that reflect the way the
knowledge will be used in
real life
- Provide authentic
tasks and activities
- Provide access to expert
performances and the
modelling of processes
- Provide multiple roles
and perspectives
- Support
collaborative
construction of
knowledge
- Promote reflection to
enable abstractions to
be formed
- Promote articulation to
enable tacit knowledge to be
made explicit
- Provide coaching and
scaffolding by the teacher at
critical times
- Provide for authentic
assessment of learning within
the tasks.
- Provide authentic contexts
that reflect the way the
knowledge will be used in
real life
- Students pull from their own
background experiences and
knowledge to reflect upon new
concepts and ideas, construct
explanations, and consider
alternative perspectives to concepts
and ideas.
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