A learning expedition is a semester - long unit of study in which students use inquiry and project - based learning to master skills, strategies, and new
information in an authentic context.
In the final section of the chapter, we describe an example of a successful partnership between a university, a community, and teachers that enacted these principles of self - regulated learning
in authentic contexts of teaching and learning.
Chapter 11 Mobile Microblogging: Using Twitter and Mobile Devices in an Online Course to Promote
Learning in Authentic Contexts by Hsu Yu - Chang Ching Yu - Hui
As it turns out, the degree to which students grasp a concept can be reliably inferred only when they can somehow apply the
concept in an authentic context.
We will share two of these in this post: first, an engagement we call Pass the Feedback, which we have found to have successfully strengthened our own proficiency in offering quality feedback and second, an experience we call Feedback on the Fly, which is an effective way to provide quality feedback to
teachers in authentic contexts.
At this year's 70th ASCD Annual Conference in Houston, Texas, CEL Project Director Karen Cloninger joined by Renton Public Schools Assistant Superintendent Tammy Campbell, Ed.D., presented CEL's partnership work around the role of principal supervisors in developing leadership actions that improve teaching and learning, engage principals in cycles of inquiry around instructional leadership goals, and focus on growing principal
leadership in authentic contexts.
Inquiry - based learning (IBL) is a pedagogical approach in which students address complex, ill - structured problems
set in authentic contexts.