Benefits of Using WebQuests:

  
                                          

 

  • Opportunities for cooperative and collaborative group work
  • Highly motivational - authentic; inquiry-based
  • Interdisciplinary
  • Critical, creative, and higher order thinking skills - REQUIRED
Bernie Dodge (San Diego State University) cites Marzano's (1992) "thinking skills" as elements of WebQuests: 

Comparing, Classifying, Inducing, Deducing, Analyzing errors, Constructing support, Abstraction, Analyzing perspectives.

                        (http://webquest.sdsu.edu/about_webquests.html)

 
  • Opportunities to integrate technology into the curriculum during MEANINGFUL instruction while directly addressing state standards
  • Clearly defined objectives
  • Appropriate links included
  • Adaptable to fit your students' needs
  • Authentic assessment - purposeful processes and products
  • Multiple sources of information
         - information is analyzed, transformed and then learning is demonstrated through sharing (presentations)
  • Either short term (1-3 class periods) or long term (1 week - 1 month)

 

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