Blog Fourteen- Authentic Learning
Posted by Emily mcdonald on Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Authentic learning is creating activities that are framed around 'real-life' contexts in which they would be used.
A few weeks ago in class we were asked to show the rest of the students what we had accomplished so far. While standing in front of everyone we were told that our authentic task idea was not authentic enough and had to have a outcome for the students. While feeling embarressed and slightly frustrated I felt the need to look into authentic learning a little bit more so make sure I understood it correctly. After I was able to talk to Bianca, Kirsty and Jessica about it and we all the discussed a way that we could make it authentic. I felt like I did not have much to add because it had been a few weeks since discussing authentic learning and therefore I was a bit fuzzy. Bianca and Jess then explained to me that authetic learning is a way of learning using real-life problems.
I went all the way back to week 4 to re-read the lecture of authentic learning, here the context of authetic learning was discribed as 'A physical or virtual environment that reflect the way the knowledge will be used in real-life'.
Re-reading the week 4 lecture definately re-freshed my mind about what authetic learning is and how it is valued in a classroom. I also look at the the text book Meaningful Learning with Technology that describved authentic learning as 'a learning task that are situated in a meaningful real-life tasks'. It goes on to say that all learning should be embedded in real-life situatiosn that the students are able to learn from.
I now feel like I understand the word authentic a little bit more as it is creating a task that has real-life relevance that will educate the students. I feel that this knowledge will be very important in my further studies and when I am teaching.
A few weeks ago in class we were asked to show the rest of the students what we had accomplished so far. While standing in front of everyone we were told that our authentic task idea was not authentic enough and had to have a outcome for the students. While feeling embarressed and slightly frustrated I felt the need to look into authentic learning a little bit more so make sure I understood it correctly. After I was able to talk to Bianca, Kirsty and Jessica about it and we all the discussed a way that we could make it authentic. I felt like I did not have much to add because it had been a few weeks since discussing authentic learning and therefore I was a bit fuzzy. Bianca and Jess then explained to me that authetic learning is a way of learning using real-life problems.
I went all the way back to week 4 to re-read the lecture of authentic learning, here the context of authetic learning was discribed as 'A physical or virtual environment that reflect the way the knowledge will be used in real-life'.
Re-reading the week 4 lecture definately re-freshed my mind about what authetic learning is and how it is valued in a classroom. I also look at the the text book Meaningful Learning with Technology that describved authentic learning as 'a learning task that are situated in a meaningful real-life tasks'. It goes on to say that all learning should be embedded in real-life situatiosn that the students are able to learn from.
I now feel like I understand the word authentic a little bit more as it is creating a task that has real-life relevance that will educate the students. I feel that this knowledge will be very important in my further studies and when I am teaching.