This morning’s keynote concerned authentic learning experiences. Jan went over the framework and gave a detailed example in teacher eduction. Education students created audiobooks/podcast to be played on iPod.She also shared some amusing news articles of authentic learning gone wrong(e.g. “Students told to plan terror attack”.) So, a number of examples of not how to do authentic learning (including some algebra and word problem examples of the type I have been using!!) but not so much on concrete, clear examples. A key point was that it takes time to do it properly.
For the 10 elements of authentic learning – check out this link
Sites
Funky school
Problem based learning
Keynote resources
Presenter Bio
Dr Jan Herrington is Professor of Education at Murdoch University in Perth. The last 20 years of her professional life have been devoted to the promotion and support of the effective use of educational technologies in learning in schools and universities. Jan’s recent research focuses on mobile learning, design-based research, authentic learning, and the use of authentic tasks as a central focus for e-learning courses.
