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D E S C R I P T I O N Introduction Definition of Learning Activities Characteristics of Authentic Activities Principles of effective Web-Design Conclusion P A G E 2 2 2 4 5
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Introduction
New technologies can provide meaningful learning experiences for all children, especially those at risk of educational failure. The use of technology helps learners to develop higher order skills and to function effectively in the world beyond the classroom. A well designed website appears to have a great potential to support learners performance authentic tasks. A website based learning have a positive impact on authentic activities. It can stimulate the development of intellectual skills, contribute to the ways of learning knowledge, skills and attitudes. New technologies spur spontaneous interest more than traditional approaches.
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4. Authentic actives provide the opportunity for student to examine the task from different perspective using a variety of resources. b. The task affords learners the opportunity to examine the problem from a variety of theoretical and practical perspective. c. The use of variety of resources rather than limited number of pre selected references. d. Requires student to detect relevant to irrelevant information.
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5. Authentic activities provide the opportunity to collaborate. oCollaboration is integral to the task, both within the course and the real world than achievable by an individual learner. 6. Authentic activities provide the opportunity to reflect. oActivities need learners to enable learners to make choice and reflect on their learning both individually and social. 7. Authentic activities can be integrated and applied across different subject areas. Activities encourage interdisciplinary perspective and enable diverse roles and expertise rather than a single well defined field or domain. 8. Authentic activities are seamlessly integrated with assessment. Assessment of activities is seamlessly integrated with the major task in a manner that reflects real world assessment. 9. Authentic activities create polished products valuable in their own right rather than as a preparation for something else. oActivities culminate in the creation of a whole product rather than an exercise or sub step in preparation of something else. 10. Authentic activities allow competing solutions and diversity of outcome. oActivities allow a range and diversity of outcomes open to multiple solutions of an original nature, rather than a single correct response obtained by the application of rules and procedures.
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Conclusion
The website that is built around authentic activities brings to the classroom experiences, knowledge, beliefs and curiosities. Authentic activities provide a means of bridging those elements with classroom learning. Learners no longer simply learn rote facts in abstract or artificial situations, but they experience and use information in ways that are grounded in reality.
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