Authentic learning: presentation to NCIQF
On Thursday 2 December, I am presenting at the National Curriculum Innovation and Quality Forum on the subject, “Risks and opportunities in authentic learning via the Internet”.
The basic brief for this keynote presentation is to:
- summarise approaches to authentic learning in the BA (Internet Communications) at Curtin University;
- identify the key benefits in using a public knowledge networking approach to authentic learning; and
- highlight risks and strategies for managing those approaches in the pursuit of authentic learning online.
While I hope to do that, with a particular emphasis on giving some examples from the great work that students in the BA (Internet Communications) have done, I also have found that in preparing my talk I have had to develop a more coherent argument about the nature of authenticity in learning and the relationship between education and learning.
The talk can be found here: https://netcrit.net/content/nciqf2010.pdf
This paper draws also on some specific work I have done on the authentic assessment in our online conference unit, Internet Communities and Social Networks 204 and more generally on social media and authentic assessment (presentation in the UK, May 2010)
Some of the examples I refer to will be listed on my blog within the week.