Authentic learning is...
- Situated learning contexts within which the application of knowledge and skills may be demonstrated
- Tasks that define real world problems
- Sustained investigation (i.e., time and effort)
- Scenarios with multiple roles and perspectives and where expert performances and processes are modeled (i.e., making tacit knowledge explicit)
- Collaborative activities to produce real world 'products' or 'performances'
- Reflective practice (as a basis for professional learning)
- Assessment of authentic learning should be seamlessly integrated with a learning activity that is practical, realistic and challenging.
My interpretation...
Now that I have determined the key factors of authentic learning I can now connect with knowledge I was unfamiliar with, I am also exposed to learn in different settings, activities and perspectives, enhance applications of theoretical knowledge to the real world and build the capacity to exercise professional judgement. All of the above is very important with how I now view teaching as with these new ideas I have taken on bored I can use this information in classes and help children gain their own idea of authentic learning.
