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Authentic Learning
From: M. Suzanne Donovan, John D. Bransford,
and James W. Pellegrino (eds.), How People Learn: Bridging Research
and Practice.
Authentic learning allows students to explore, discover, discuss, and
meaningfully construct concepts and relationships in contexts that involve
real-world problems and projects that are relevant and interesting to
the learner.
Authentic learning implies several things: that learning be centered
around authentic tasks, that learning be guided with teacher scaffolding,
that students be engaged in exploration and inquiry, that students have
opportunities for social discourse, and that ample resources be available
to students as they pursue meaningful problems. Advocates of authentic
learning believe these elements support natural learning, and many of
these ideals are based in theory and research on learning and cognition.
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