How can authentic learning tools improve student engagement and deepen learning? What does the apprenticeship model tell us about learning?
Authentic learning is the idea where you create an experience for a child to learn something. A teacher actually immerses the child into the subject, while minimally using a textbook. Oftentimes teachers try to create authentic learning experiences that a child will often prompt a child to further explore and discuss a topic, much more in-depthly than if the experience was not authentic. This process often leads to further inquiry from the student and allows the teacher to guide the students learning.
The apprenticeship model parallels authentic learning and is the idea that students learn through actively experiencing something. Actively using newly acquired knowledge is important because it is then committed to long term memory. Oftentimes newly learned material is easily forgotten because the learner has not had the opportunity to apply what he has learned. Hence, the apprenticeship model is very important in learning theory.
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