Industry training environments don't often have good examples of authentic learning either. You would think with their expertise that they could but they often don't.
I remember doing some reading in my graduate program by Donald Kirkpatrick who was big into evaluation (not assessment per se) here is a link to some of his levels http://www.businessballs.com/kirkpatricklearningevaluationmodel.htm
Ultimately, assessment is just hard and time consuming no matter how you cut it. It is probably a spectrum - so in the case of Quest Atlantis - it is not that it is perfectly authentic - it is just that it is more authentic than the alternative that the kids were used to having.
It's always interesting to track the implementation of 'authentic' learning environments. Quest Atlantis has had a TON of $$ poured and time into it. I wonder how long it is going to stick around. Are they educating the scientists of the future? I kind of see it as an innovative implementation of authentic learning ideas in the same way I see the anchored instruction that came out of the Jasper Woodbury series. The problem is that there is so much poured into the development of these materials, that when the technology moves one, the innovation does not. Just my 2 cents.
Industry training environments don't often have good examples of authentic learning either. You would think with their expertise that they could but they often don't.
ReplyDeleteI remember doing some reading in my graduate program by Donald Kirkpatrick who was big into evaluation (not assessment per se) here is a link to some of his levels http://www.businessballs.com/kirkpatricklearningevaluationmodel.htm
Ultimately, assessment is just hard and time consuming no matter how you cut it. It is probably a spectrum - so in the case of Quest Atlantis - it is not that it is perfectly authentic - it is just that it is more authentic than the alternative that the kids were used to having.
It's always interesting to track the implementation of 'authentic' learning environments. Quest Atlantis has had a TON of $$ poured and time into it. I wonder how long it is going to stick around. Are they educating the scientists of the future? I kind of see it as an innovative implementation of authentic learning ideas in the same way I see the anchored instruction that came out of the Jasper Woodbury series. The problem is that there is so much poured into the development of these materials, that when the technology moves one, the innovation does not. Just my 2 cents.
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