For week 4 we had to create a webquest assignment that is based on our academic content standards, and which grade level we're teaching. I did my webquest on researching information on the industrial revolution. I enjoyed this assignment because it's good practice for lesson planning, and it's good to know what resources you should provide to students when assigning a webquest assignment. I originally thought webquests were more complicated, but now I know that they're fairly easy and simple to create. They are also really effective for students to advance their research skills and being able to comprehend information found on the web.
Although this assignment was a useful one, I had trouble making it creative. Because my focus is high school-aged students, I mainly wanted them to be able to comprehend concepts, and different affects of the industrial revolution, which could be boring to a lot of students. Overall, a webquest is a good lesson plan idea, but i definitely need to learn how to be more creative when it comes to presenting the assignment to the students.
Standards met include...
S3: model digital age work & learning, S1: Facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity, and S4: Promote and Model Digital Citizenship & Responsibility.
This assignment also made use of professional dispositions, such as...
Commitment to professional competence and ongoing professional development.
I agree that the Webquest assignment could be seen as a precursor to a lesson plan. The Webquest was a direct way to supply information to the class and a lesson plan is supposed to be direct and just cover the needed information.
ReplyDeleteI also found this assignment to be pretty useful!! I thought it would be extremely difficult as well, but once I got rolling on it I realized it wasn't as bad. It definitely was good lesson planning practice! This assignment definitely would require students to sort through the information they find, determining what is useful.
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