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Where Learning Happens?
Authors: Pablo Páramo1 , Christian Hederich2 , Omar López3 , Luis B. Sanabria4 , Ángela Camargo5
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Under the basic principles of situated learning, this paper presents the results of a study that
explores about the scenarios where information is looked up or certain specific knowledge is
acquired by high school students. Methodologically, the study applied Facet Theory to identify
the variables involved in the possible connections between scenarios and learning contents. A
total of 298 high school students (135 males and 163 females) answered a questionnaire about
the frequency with which certain contents are looked up in certain scenarios, such as: the school,
the city, home and the web. The results confirm the scenarios’ facet and restructure the contents’
facet in terms of a polarity. Some conclusions about the extension of situated learning principles
were made and questions for future studies that explore the role of new learning scenarios in
students’ education were asked.