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Welcome to teaching tips with Dr Allison Upshaw.
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Today's tips involve the principles of authentic learning.
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Now we've been talking about Bloom's taxonomy and backwards by
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design. However, today I want to talk about the actual
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task and how we can get our students more engaged.
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We're not going to go over all the principles of
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authentic learning, but we are gonna talk about much of
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five that I think are really important.
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One. There has to be real world relevance.
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We don't want students toe have tests that are on
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Lee relevant to the classroom.
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We need them to be engaged in solving real world
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limits. Secondly, these tasks should be ill defined, blurry.
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The students should have to make decisions about what they
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need to do in order to accomplish what you've set
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before them.
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Thirdly, they should be complex and sustained over time.
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Think weeks days instead of hours and minutes.
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The other thing that authentic learning activity should do is
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this should encourage multiple perspectives.
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Students should have to think outside of the box, think
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in the way that others who don't have their same
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perspective might approach the problem.
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And finally, for us today, thes task ought to provide
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an opportunity before reflection.
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And this is not a test.
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It's an actual reflection.
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Those are different things and to give the students an
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opportunity to reflect on what they've done, the choices that
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they've made, how they were successful, how they weren't successful
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is very important in the learning off in authentic learning.
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Well, you know what I am.
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You know where to find me and, as always, having
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art full day.