Teaching and Learning with the WebQuest

The Joy of Learning

The WebQuest
Computers and the Internet are valuable teaching and learning tools.

Ideal for a collaborative learning project !

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

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 Teaching and Learning with the WebQuest

The Joy of Learning

Professor Bernie Dodge, the father of Webquests,

defines them as "inquiry-oriented activities in which
some or all of the information that learners interact
with comes from resources on the internet”.
 Learners Need

Information

Questions

To simulate inquiry and exploration


Access to facts

Knowledge and wisdom


Guidance on how

Select

Evaluate

Apply

Organize

Synthesize

Communicate ideas

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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 about
students' 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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 Duration
Long 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/webquestsby
 http://www.etni.org.il/etnirag/issue1/nellie
 http://www.etni.org.il/etnirag/issue2/nellie
 http://www.integrating-technology.org/cou

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Doing is succeeding!

So go for it …

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