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Jan Herrington’s model of Authentic learning

Jan 24, 2012

in Assessment, Learning, PhD, Research, Teaching

articulation, assessment, authentic activities, authentic assessment, authentic learning, authentic tasks, collaboration, Complexity, Jan Herrington, reflection, scaffolding

A few days ago I met with my supervisor to discuss my research plan for the year. She suggested I look into Jan Herrington’s work on authentic learning so I thought I’d make some notes here as I familiarize myself with it. To begin with, there are 9 elements of authentic learning (I believe that in…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-01-23

Jan 23, 2012

in Digest

academic publishers, authentic learning, authentic tasks, bionic vision, blackout, digital research, digital textbooks, papert, pipa, publication, sopa, stem cells, traumatic brain injury, wikipedia

I support the January 18th Wikipedia blackout to protest SOPA and PIPA. Show your support here http://t.co/AnJlypdH # http://t.co/cTkPUcqJ blacked out in protest of SOPA / PIPA – The Oatmeal http://t.co/h0Myd5h9 # I support #wikipediablackout Show your support here http://t.co/AnJlypdH # RT @czernie: This is useful- http://t.co/RUSUQvL1, a wiki of tools, services,and collections that can…