Sunday, February 8, 2009

Assignment-Web Quest

A Web Quest is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web. It is also an inquiry-oriented activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the internet, optionally supplemented with videoconferencing. The model was developed by Bernie Dodge at San Diego State University in February, 1995 with early input from SDSU/Pacific Bell Fellow Tom March, the Educational Technology staff at San Diego Unified School District, and waves of participants each summer at the Teach the Teachers Consortium.
Web quest provides a big help to teachers and students in the sense that it is another type of activity that a learner could actively learned and interact. A teacher can make his/her part easier as a facilitator because everything or all the information can be found by the learners from the internet. Teachers will only plan the web quest he wants to be executed by his students and during the class hours, he will just instruct them everything they need to do. The students can make an activity meaningful because they will learn a lot of knowledge from web quest since much information should be found out in order to successfully do the assigned activity of the teachers. Students can make a good result to any lesson or activity if the information is complete and precise. Teachers can be more effective if the learners know or acquire lots of knowledge and the teaching/learning process would be valuable if students understand it well. For me web quest can be a great advantage to students that their teachers let them learn through this.
Web quest will be applicable in our country for the reason that it is a big help to improve the teaching/learning situation in every school here in the Philippines. We all know that the main objective of our education nowadays is to produce globally competitive graduates and we can only attain it if we have an education similar to other progressive countries in terms of education. We all know also that our country can now compete in terms of using new or modern educational technologies. Web quest is one appropriate type of teaching/learning style to be applied here in our country because it is a learning connected to web. Nowadays internet is very rampant not only for entertainment but for educational purposes therefore web quest can be much applicable here in our country.

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