Situated learning

Well, first sorry I´m late I didn´t see we have to do this activity.

Now after I read the article about situated learning, I understood that is when the students learn from helping each other and being a part of a community, students can also learn by practicing what they learn. Besides students learn from observing the environment. 

Now according to my receiving institution and the work I´m doing with the students there I found some points on where I see that situated learning is matched to my social service. Learnig is a process where students need to acquire the knowledge taught by the teacher. Since the moment when students get in the classroom in fact they can learn many things talking about the environment, social behavior, friendship and topics seen in the classes. All these can be done in the classroom working with my students.

As I have seen learning a subject can be matched to other one, according to the topic is being worked on. Being a teacher in elementary I have seen that as a teacher we have to teach using transversality, that is when students learn about two subjects at the same time. I think this is one of the parts of situated learning. When I work on numbers for example I can then work with my students on math problems, as an example, or children on first grade that are learning the alphabet, they can learn it in english and spanish at the same. In my opinion transversality can be one of the points.

Sometimes students need to learn in other contexts not just in the classroom, being sitting on the chair and listening to the teacher talking all the time. Students need to learn outside the side, studen ts can learn a lot being out of the clssroom, because the practice what the learn. It is not the same when a student just write and copy from the whiteboard than when they practice it,for example they are learning verbs, so it will be easier if they go out of the classroom and act out the verbs by listening them or even in the classroom, but playing a game board using the verbs. It is proved that students learn a lot when they play too not just by writing.

For last, beign a part of a community is very important, too. Here is where students learn by helping others. In the class, when students finish their activity first, some of them tend to help others who hasn´t finish, they also learn by helping because they see again what they did or maybe explaining to others, they can remember more by repeating.

In my social service I think  that these can be the most important, working on transversality, practicing,changing the environment (the place) and helping each others. Here I share a picture of the cards for a lottery that I made some years ago and I still use it to play and they learn the verbs at the same.