Do you have difficulty dealing with IT and the Internet? Are you using critical
thinking, cooperative learning, authentic assessment, and technology integration in your
teaching? With everything else that must be taught, how can we add these new and important
strategies for our students?
WebQuests were designed to address this dilemma by bringing together the most effective
instructional practices into one integrated student activity.
A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by
learners is drawn from the Web. WebQuests are designed to use learners' time well, to
focus on using information rather than looking for it, and to support learners' thinking
at the levels of analysis, synthesis and evaluation. The model was developed in early 1995
at San Diego State University by Bernie Dodge and Tom March.
Why use the Internet?
Before using the Internet successfully as a teaching and learning tool, we need
to understand its intrinsic value. This can only be gained by Surfing, Stumbling, Searching, and
Lurching on the web. Explore what the web has to offer.
Integrating the Web
Working the Web for Education
describes the theory and practice of integrating the Web with student learning.
How do you want to use the Internet with your students?
Do you want to simply collect resources for students to use or do you want to target
specific learning outcomes?
Each of the links below suggest a format for integrating the Internet into
teaching and learning. Which one are you ready for?
