AUTHENTIC LEARNING

BY
PRESENTED
O.M.MACHETE
DEFINITION
 Materials and activities
framed around real life
context
 Material is meaningful to
student
 More motivating and
deeply processed
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
Activelearning
Contextualised

AUTHENTIC TASKS
 Students construct their own response
 Task replicates challenges faced in real
world
 Interested in how well information can be
used
 Encourage the integration of teaching,
learning and assessing

Characteristics
 Selecting a  Selectinga
Response Response
 select the  performing a

right answer more

 complex
task

 Traditional Authentic

Contrived to Real-life
select from four
  demonstrate
alternatives to proficiency by
indicate our doing something.
proficiency at
something
Recall/Recognition
Construction/Application
 (i.e.,
tests and  analyze,
quizzes) can synthesize
effectively and apply
determine what they
whether or have learned
not students
have
acquired a
body of
knowledge.
Teacher-structured
Student-structured
 what a student can  allow more student
and will choice and
demonstrate has construction
been carefully
structured by the
person(s) who
developed the
test.
Indirect Evidence to Direct
Evidence
 The evidence  Asking a
is very student to
indirect, write a
particularly for critique
claims of should
meaningful provide more
application in direct
complex, real- evidence
world
situations.
AUTHENTIC LEARNING
EXAMPLE
FIELD WORK RESEARCH
SERVICE DELIVERY IN SOUTH
AFRICA
A geography learner has to
learn how to do a fieldwork
research
 Learn how to derive a
hypothesis
 Learn how to get a first hand
information through
interviews, surveys,
questionnaires.
Continue
 Able to graphically present
findings (graphs)
 Learn how to analyse findings
and draw conclusion.
TASK
RESEARCH
Read through the information


provided and thereafter

follow all the steps to
complete your fieldwork
research assignment.
What is service delivery ?
 An action / activity that
satisfies a person’s wants.
 example hairdresser gives a
service
What is a problem?
 Many years of service
delivery backlog
 Lack of shelter
 Lack of water
 Lack of sanitation
 Unsafe
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STEPS FOR COMPLETION
 Find an article from  LO 1
any source  AS: 1-Plan a
(newspaper, geographical
magazine, etc) research project of
that relates to limited extend in a
service delivery. familiar context
 Underline or
highlight the
important facts.

ACTIVITY
 OUTCOME

STEP 2
State the  LO 1
problem that  AS: 3-Compare
relates to your & contrast
local information
community(no from a
from the variety of
article) sources
This will be

your
hypothesis
STEP 3
 Find the  Lo 1
known  As: 2-

cause of a Integrate
problem information
 Use from variety
of sources
secondary  3-
sources
Compare &
such as contrast
media, information
websites,
STEP 4
 Gather  LO1
information  AS:4-
from Analyse
community the
through acquired
surveys, informatio
interviews n
etc.

STEP 5
Draw  LO1
 AS:5 Substantiate
graphs findings
illustratin
g your
informatio
n visually
STEP 6
 Analyse the  LO 1
 AS:3 Explore
data from
possible
your responses to
graphs issues and
 Give your challenges
arising from
opinion on
human and
your environment
findings interaction
STEP 7
 SOLUTION  LO 3
 What  AS: 3- Examine
do you
think can be different
done to solve approaches used
to sustain the
this problem
environment
that take into
account different
knowledge
system
RUBRIC
 Find article  5 marks
 Find cause and  10 marks
formulate hypothesis 
 Gather data  10 marks
 Analyse and  15 marks
synthesise  10 marks
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 Develop action plan
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 50 marks
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 Total 
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PROJECT STEPS
 ASSESSMENT MARK
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