Cybersavvy
Situated Learning
What is it?
Students learn new knowledge and skills in the community or type of environment in which they'll need to use them. Here are your mentors:
Who Contributed to the Theory?
Brown, Collins. Duguid (1989) The researchers argue that knowledge is the result of an activity,
Lave and Wenger (1991) "Legitimate Peripheral Participation": People who are new to a community learn from experienced people within that community, and they gradually move from novices to masters through their interactions with mentors.
Sociocultural Theory (1992): Researchers that include Jarvis and Wertsch advocate for studying learning by considering the following: 1) the origins of mental functions and how they have developed; 2) the argument that higher-order thinking emerges out of social interactions; 3) how tools and signs such as visual aids and text affect social and individual actions.
How Can It Be Applied?
The class will interview a fact-checker from a local newspaper and then test their skills. We will be publishing a class newspaper and need to review a peer's article before to make sure that all sources are valid, and all statements are supported by fact before it is published at the end of class.