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.

My Exam

The tutorial software is more on cognitive learning theory since new knowledge are presented in a systematic way that make the human brains active. It focuses on the internal structures of memory and storage processes that make learning possible.

The tutorials software I choose has a topic verb which is very helpful for students’ learning. It is all about verbs listening tests and actions listening test worksheets. Verbs are words that express some form of action. It is also a word used to show that an action is taking place or to indicate the existence of a state or condition, or the part of speech to which such a word belongs. It can be a predicate of sentence which is a part of a clause or sentence that includes the verb, but excludes the subject of the verb. Students may able to enhance their capacity in constructing a sentence with correct verb usage.

The software gives examples that students will listen carefully the sentences with verbs, as well as read it properly in the worksheets provided. The tutorial software contains the worksheet of different verb exercises and with answer sheet of the verb used in the sentences as well. The content of the worksheets can be heard in the audio provided also. This software provides a lot of exercises to improve the knowledge of students about verbs, especially when using it in the sentence already. If all students will just care to visit this kind of software, then they will be developed more their learning capacities and maybe their intelligence quotient also.

http://www.123listening.com/verbs1.php

Instructional games are usually associated with behaviorism because of the variety of reinforcement mechanisms inherent in game environments in which students are motivated by competition and game rules to strive to reach the goals. Behaviorism advocates that a learner is primarily a product of conditioning, and that the learner is controlled by factors outside of himself.

The instructional games software I choose is in spelling and grammar particularly in prefixes and suffixes. Prefix is a linguistic element that is not an independent word, but is attached to the beginning of a word to modify its meaning. Suffix a letter or group of letters added at the end of a word or word part to form another word. The instructions should be heard or listened first by the students who will play the game. The game has three boxes that contains the prefixes in the first, simple words in the center and suffixes in the third one. The students will click the boxes to match the correct prefixes and suffixes that should be attached to the simple word given. If it is a wrong answer, the students should select another prefix or suffix to come up a correct answer. It is very interesting because you will not only learn but you can feel the enjoyment when you got it right as well as become eager to continue answering or playing. If you had finished answering some praise will be read if you are a great player. This will not only enhance the learning abilities of students but will improve the behaviorism aspect also. It will make them happy even in a simple way since they are not just learning but they are enjoying as well.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/english/tests/spelling.shtml

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