Tag Archives: authentic learning
Recently, I posted an entry here on authentic learning. In that post I defined authentic learning as learning that involves real-world tasks and problems as opposed to school-specific tasks or problems, such as learning how to put a heading on a paper or how to outguess a test writer. Students seem to enjoy work that [...]
It was John Dewey who created the notion of “learning by doing.” His famous line was, “Education is not preparation for life: Education is life itself.” And years later it was Jerome Bruner who stated that it wasn’t enough to learn, say, history. The more successful approach would be to teach students to think like [...]
Editor’s Note: This entry was co-authored by George Rislov and Nora O’Leary-Roseberry. We were at the Bob Bullock Museum in Austin on May 4, 2012, to judge the Texas History Day contest. This year, over 1,100 students submitted more than 600 entries. Each time we participate in this competition, we become excited and impressed by [...]
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