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The WebQuest

Ideal for a collaborative learning project !

Computers and the Internet are valuable teaching and learning tools.

The Joy of Learning

Nellie Deutsch May 26, 2010 at the UAA 10th Annual Teacher Conference

Teaching and Learning with the WebQuest

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Professor Bernie Dodge, the father of Webquests,defines them as "inquiry-oriented activities in which

some or all of the information that learners interactwith comes from resources on the internet.

The Joy of Learning

Teaching and Learning with the WebQuest

http://webquest.sdsu.edu/about_webquests.htmlhttp://webquest.sdsu.edu/about_webquests.html

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Information

Questions

To simulate inquiry and exploration

Access to facts

Knowledge and wisdom

Guidance on how

Select

Evaluate

Apply

Organize

Synthesize

Communicate ideas

Learners Need

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Learners Need Time

To watch, wonder

To explore, question, search

To create

Opportunities

Choices and Alternatives

Explore

Do

Travel

Interact

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Learners Need Tools

Resources Technologies

Material for physical and mental work Experience

Practical Meaningful Active participation Varied activities

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Learners Need Motivation

Self-directed Relevant and Meaningful Authentic activities

Models

Positive supportive enthusiastic

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Learners Need Strategies

Techniques to cope with Strengths Weaknesses

Opportunities

Problems

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Why Use a WebQuest?

Justify the cost of placing computers in

classrooms

Administrators and parents are concerned aboutstudents' unguided use of the Internet.

Is it really worth the costs?

Is it really necessary?

Effective use of the Internet in the classroom.

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Building Blocks

Introduction

Task

Process

Resources

Evaluation

Conclusion

Teacher Page

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WebQuests Support

Teamwork

Collaborative Cooperative Critical thinking Self-discovery Self-directed

Self-paced Inquiry-based

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Duration

Short Term

One to three lessons Knowledge acquisition and integration Significant amount of information and

makes sense of it

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DurationLong Term

A week to one month

Instructional goal Extend and expand knowledge Refine knowledge

Learner analyzes a body of knowledge

transforms it demonstrates understanding

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Thinking skills comparing classifying

inducing deducing analyzing errors constructing support

abstraction analyzing perspectives

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Resources

http://www.nelliemuller.com/webquestsb

http://www.etni.org.il/etnirag/issue1/nelli http://www.etni.org.il/etnirag/issue2/nelli http://www.integrating-technology.org/co

http://www.nelliemuller.com/webquestsbynelliedeutsch.htmhttp://www.etni.org.il/etnirag/issue1/nellie_deutsch.htmhttp://www.etni.org.il/etnirag/issue2/nellie_deutsch.htmhttp://www.integrating-technology.org/course/view.php?id=9http://www.integrating-technology.org/course/view.php?id=9http://www.etni.org.il/etnirag/issue2/nellie_deutsch.htmhttp://www.etni.org.il/etnirag/issue1/nellie_deutsch.htmhttp://www.nelliemuller.com/webquestsbynelliedeutsch.htm

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Doing is succeeding!

So go for it