Situated learning is an instructional approach where learning occurs through authentic experiences such as field trips, internships, labs, and other activities that reflect real-world situations. It focuses on active participation over passive learning and involves students in collaborative activities that challenge them to solve complex problems. Traditional learning occurs through abstract lessons, while situated learning connects prior knowledge to contextual learning experiences.

2. What is Situated Learning?
Situated learning is an instructional
approach developed by Jean Lave and
Etienne Wenger in the early 1990s, and
follows the work of Dewey, Vygotsky, and
others who claim that students are more
inclined to learn by actively participating in
the learning experience.

3. Lave and Wenger assert that situated
learning "is not an educational form, much
less a pedagogical strategy“.

4. Examples of situated learning
activities:
 Field trips where students actively participate in an
unfamiliar environment.
 Cooperative education and internship
experiences in which students are immersed and
physically active in an actual work environment.

5. examples of situated learning
activities:
 Music and sports (physical education) practice
which replicate actual setting of these events,
e.g., orchestras, studios, training facilities
 Laboratories are used as classrooms in which
students are involved in activities which replicate
actual work settings These examples illustrate that
students are actively involved in addressing real
world problems.

6. Traditional vs Situated
 Traditional learning occurs from abstract, out of
context experiences such as lectures and books.
 Situated learning, on the other hand, suggests that
learning takes place through the relationships
between people and connecting prior knowledge
with authentic, informal, and often unintended
contextual learning.

7. Situated learning involves students in
cooperative activities where they are
challenged to use their critical thinking
and kinesthetic abilities.

8. These activities should be applicable
and transferable to students’ homes,
communities, and workplaces .

9.  Provide authentic context that reflect
the way the knowledge will be used in
real-life.
 Provide authentic activities.
 Provide access to expert performances
and the modelling of processes.
 Provide multiple roles and perspective.
 Support collaborative construction of
knowledge.
The learning Environment will

10.  Provide coaching and scaffolding at
critical times.
Promote reflection to enable
abstractions to be formed.
Promote articulation to enable tacit
knowledge to be made explicit.
Provide for integrated assessment of
learning within the tasks.

11.  Select situations that will engage the learners in
complex, realistic, problem-centered activities.
 Provide a scaffold for new learners, knowing the type
and intensity of guidance necessary to help learners
master the situations.
How to include it in the
classroom

12.  Teacher turns from transmitter to facilitator of
learning by tracking progress, assessing
products produced by learners, building
collaborative learning environments,
encouraging reflection.
 Assess students through discussion,
reflection, evaluation, and validation of the
community’s perspective”

13. The act of writing in a Weblog, or
“blogging” can go a long way toward
teaching skills such as research,
organizations and the synthesis of ideas.
Examples of Situated Learning
and Technology

14. Social networks like Facebook, Twitter
allow learners, once they move beyond
the personal connections, to embrace a
community where they can learn from
each other.

15. Students are able to mimic what they
see and hear which enables them to
retain information for the long term.
Through visualizations of different types
of computer applications; the student’s
knowledge is defined by the social
process of interacting and doing.

16. It allows the students to learn naturally as
a result of social behavior. The computer
application acts as a guide while the
students learn naturally from their own
experience. As always, situated learning
accelerates a student learning process
and ability.

18. Summarizing ….

19. Conclusion
Situated Learning approach focusses on
developing skills that will be helpful for
learners in a real context, students need to
engage and create products, all this
through collaborative work, reserarch,
hands on activities and experience.

20. Thank You
José Carlos Cifuentes H.
Alejandra Alvarez O.