HOW TO CONNECT STUDENTS TO THE REAL WORLD THROUGH AUTHENTIC LEARNING

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Lecturers and teachers over the years always have a linear and familiar method of impacting knowledge to students, the teacher presents lessons to students, the student takes in the lessons and prove they understand by taking test, quizzes, assignments and exams, and then after proving to a satisfactory result the student is awarded a certificate and the they goes into the world to utilize what they have learnt.

The process is familiar and there seems to be something missing from the process, and that is an engagement with real world problems which they are being taught to provide a solution for.

Although there are practices and policies in place to ensure students connect to the real world with the knowledge acquired through industrial attachment and supervised industrial work experience (SIWES), neither of the two method have truly connected students to real life situations that will adequately equip them for the labor market.

Perhaps there is more to teacher-students relationship than giving and taking in knowledge, there is a more dynamic framework of learning that allows students to explore innovative and creative ways to solve problems that are going to have real-world value in their lives. They call this framework “authentic learning.”

According to Wikipedia, In education, authentic learning is an instructional approach that allows students to explore, discuss, and meaningfully construct concepts and relationships in contexts that involve real-world problems and projects that are relevant to the learner.

The Glossary of Education Reform also defines authentic learning as “a wide variety of educational and instructional techniques focused on connecting what students are taught in school to real-world issues, problems, and applications.”

Authentic learning is a relatively new term that describes learning through applying knowledge in real-life contexts and situations. In a recent article in the Journal of Authentic Learning, Audrey Rule of the State University of New York (SUNY) at Oswego tries to answer the question she is most often asked: What do you mean by authentic learning?

Four components are repeatedly found in authentic learning, reports Rule, who did a content analysis of 45 journal articles that faculty members in the School of Education at SUNY-Oswego submitted as examples of authentic learning in their disciplines.

“Although the term authentic learning is broad and has not been applied to a specific instructional model, these four components are found repeatedly, suggesting that they are an integral part of authentic learning experiences,” Rule writes.

The four themes supporting authentic learning are:

  1. An activity that involves real-world problems and that mimics the work of professionals; the activity involves presentation of findings to audiences beyond the classroom.
  2. Use of open-ended inquiry, thinking skills and metacognition.
  3. Students engage in discourse and social learning in a community of learners.
  4. Students direct their own learning in project work.

Real-world problems

One characteristics of authentic learning is that it targets a real problem and that students’ engagement holds the possibility of having an impact outside the classroom, Rule says. “This audience beyond the classroom changes the problem from an ‘exercise’ to something more important, allowing students to become emotional stakeholders in the problem,” she writes.

In science, for example, this may be accomplished when students collect water quality data from local streams. Model lessons that address authentic learning in social studies could include students’ analysis of primary documents related to the Pledge of Allegiance. In developing literacy, reading resources could be connected to real life with bus schedules, maps, diaries and interviews with people.

Inquiry and thinking skills

For authentic learning, students must exercise higher levels of thinking, according to this analysis. For example, science teaching should reflect the scientific process of knowledge construction. Learning in mathematics should occur through discovery, inquiry and induction. Instead of math problems that require that students merely apply a known procedure, authentic mathematical tasks require solvers to use different representations in their solutions and to work with realistic and complex mathematical data. In art education, students can use thinking skills to deconstruct visual and textual information in media ads.

Discourse in a community of learners

A community of learners can be a group of learners working together to unravel a problem or refer to the community setting in which the project is based. Science investigations should link students to scientists through data sharing, critiquing, and direct communication. Multiculturalism can be brought to the classroom by exploring numbers in other languages, symbols of ancient societies and games of skill and chance from around the world.

Student-directed learning

For authentic learning, problems must have a personal frame of reference and be open-ended, according to this article.  “This cannot happen without student choice in defining the problem and selecting the path of its solution,” Rule writes. In the field of health promotion and wellness, for example, educators provide information so that individuals may make informed choices.

Choice also occurs when students make their own interpretations of literature and art. “Research related to effective instructional practice emphasizes the need for greater personalization and individualization of instruction because learning is an individual experience,” the article states. Instruction can be personalized by allowing the learner to choose from the rich variety of pathways.

Apprenticeships also provide important opportunities for students to interact with the wider community and reflect upon their experiences, the article states. The author invites readers to examine their reading and learning situations to identify more ways that authentic learning is implemented.

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