Group Leader: Panuyas, Dania Loubelle C.

Technology for Teaching and Learning 1

Group Members: Bautista, Melizabeth Prof. April Ann M. Curugan
Gregorio, Charlie October 4, 2019
Situated Learning
By Jean Lave

Who is Jean Lave?

- A social anthropologist who theorizes learning as changing
participation in on-going practice.
- Pioneered the theory of situated learning and communities of
practice, with the assistance of her student, Etienne Wenger.

What is Situated Learning?

 It is an instructional approach that makes students more

inclined to learn by actively participating in the learning
experience.
 It is an application-based approach that stresses reflective
learning where the results are used in solving problems faced
in daily life.

What are the classroom implications?

 Student’s application of new knowledge through participating and cooperating.

 Students will acquire knowledge through situational learning.
 Learning as a social process and requires active learning.
Activity for students:
- Fieldtrips where students actively participate in an unfamiliar environment.
- On the job training such as apprenticeships and cooperative education in which
students are immersed and physically active in an actual work environment.
- Arts, Music and Sports practices which replicate actual setting of these events, e.g.,
orchestras, studios and training facilities.
- Laboratories and Child-care centers used as classrooms.

Situated Learning in the Age of Technology

Lifelong-learning era is evolving towards reliance on interaction. A rich technological
environment involves interaction with other people echoes an individualized task for learners.
Classroom Implications:
- Audio-Visual for Instructions
- Online Mobile Learning
- Video Integration
- Virtual Learning
- Gamification