If you set your web quest up correctly - not only do they find thier informtion but
you can create higher thinking questions( Bloom's taxomony) for the children to
response to - I've done this with 3rd graders - Create open ended questions after
finding a closed ended questions. So I think the webquest are a great tool for
students in academic learning in all areas of discipline.
Paulette Simpson
Media Specialist
Taylor Academy
CIncinnati, OH
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> Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 15:46:26 -0500
> From: pbeachene@SNET.NET
> Subject: [LM_NET] Web Quests
> To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
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> I think everyone has missed the point of why web quests are important.
> As originally developed by Bernie Dodge they are sources of inquiry
> based learning for the students. They should not merely be a way to
> have kids regurgitate information. They should be designed to have kids
> gather facts and reach independent conclusions based on those facts.
> For example, there is a web quest that we use on the Lost colony of
> Roanoke. The kids have to gather information on possible reasons on why
> the colony disappeared and then develop their own theory. This is a far
> cry from a state report that regurgitates information about the state
> capital, bird etc. Not to say that there is not a place for teaching
> kids how to find information, but true web quests should take them one
> step farther-based on what you know about the geography of the united
> States, create a mythical state, place it somewhere in the country,
> list the states bordering it, the geographic features, climate etc. You
> would not have aq state bordered by Georgia and Florida with 100 inches
> of snow per year.
> Maryann Beauchene
> Media Specialist/Computer Educator
> Botelle School
> Norfolk CT 06058
> "He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing." Cicero
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