The WebQuest Story: A 21st Century Chronicle

1. The WebQuest Story: A 21st Century Chronicle Bernie Dodge, PhD San Diego State University

2. Having access to great, free resources is not enough Looking at something ≠ learning

3. Real, important, lasting learning requiresaction,struggle andcontext

4. About, above, across, after, against, among, around, at, before, beside, between, by, down, during, except, for, from, in, into, near, of, on, off, over, through, to, towards, under, up, with.

6. Alex asked: What about outside?

8. Transmission Model

9. Traditional Student Teacher

10. Traditional Transmission Student Teacher

11. Constructivist Model

12. Inputs Constructivist

13. Inputs Constructivist Transformation

14. Inputs Outputs Constructivist Transformation

15. THE ANCIENT PAST 1995

17. The First WebQuest - 1995

18. What Felt New? They got to work right away Their conversations were deep They were engaged I only introduced, debugged and debriefed They were using authentic data

19. THE PRESENT

22. The Short Definition • A WebQuest is simply good teaching with the web.

23. The Longer Definition: • Constructivist lesson format • Wrapped around a doable and interesting task that is a scaled-down version of something adults do • Most (not necessarily all) material comes from the Web • Resources are pre-selected • Often (though not always) involves students taking on roles • Involves higher level thinking

24. WebQuest Assumptions • Authentic tasks are more engaging • Learning is enhanced by social interaction among learners • Higher level thinking skill development is essential and needs to start at an early age • Uncertainty and doubt are instructionally useful Lev Vygotsky John Dewey

25. WebQuest Assumptions • Better to be evolutionary than revolutionary

26. Balance Structure Freedom

27. WebQuests: Major Parts • Introduction • Task • Process • Evaluation • Teacher Page

28. WebQuests: Major Parts Critical Attribute: The taskrequires higher order thinking • Introduction • Task • Process • Evaluation • Teacher Page

29. Bloom’s Taxonomy WebQuests WebExercises

30. Bernie’s Taxonomy Life Verbs Decide Design Create Predict Judge Apply Analyze Explain Know Tell Remember Classroom Verbs

31. A Few Examples

37. So how do you create lessons like this?

44. Status Today: Users • Over 55000 users in 120 countries • Over 25000 WebQuests created

46. We’re giving back to the net

50. THE FUTURE