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Didactic Teaching Model Dependence Imitation Rote learning Results

Dependence

Imitation

Rote learning

Results

Situated Learning Authentic content - reflects the way knowledge is used in real life. Authentic activities - Activities that have real world relevance. Provide access to expert performances and the modeling process - social periphery and expert thinking. Provide multiple roles and perspectives - the opportunity to express different points of view. Support collaborative construction of knowledge - group working. Promote reflection - opportunity for learners to compare with experts. Promote articulation - publicly present arguments in defense of learning. Provide coaching and scaffolding - complex open ended learning environment. Provide authentic assessment. Authentic Learning Environment Altalib, Hasan (2002) Situated Cognition, Describing the Theory . http://eric.ed.gov:80/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/1a/f1/8e.pdf

Authentic content - reflects the way knowledge is used in real life.

Authentic activities - Activities that have real world relevance.

Provide access to expert performances and the modeling process - social

periphery and expert thinking.

Provide multiple roles and perspectives - the opportunity to express different points of view.

Support collaborative construction of knowledge - group working.

Promote reflection - opportunity for learners to compare with experts.

Promote articulation - publicly present arguments in defense of learning.

Provide coaching and scaffolding - complex open ended learning environment.

Provide authentic assessment.

Authentic Learning Environment

Altalib, Hasan (2002) Situated Cognition, Describing the Theory . http://eric.ed.gov:80/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/1a/f1/8e.pdf

Collaborative Working Zones of Proximal Development: Scaffolding

Chaiklin, S. (2003) The Zone of Proximal Development in Vygotsky's Analysis of Learning and Instruction. In Kozulin, A., Gindis, B., Ageyev, V. & Miller, S. (Eds.) Vygotsky's Educational Theory and Practice in Cultural Context . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Legitimate Peripheral Participation

Community of Practice

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