The Student WebQuest

The article is about how teachers can use WebQuests to enhance learning experiences in their classrooms. Not only do WebQuests save valuable class time by focusing students on a task, but they also allow students to go deeper into a topic. The author explains, “A well-written quest demands that students go beyond fact finding: It asks them to analyze a variety of resources and use their creativity and critical-thinking skills to derive solutions to a problem. The problem is often ‘real world’--that is, one that needs a genuine and reasonable solution.”

One thing I like about WebQuests is students will be working on the computer and I can easily look and see if they are on task. Thus I won’t have to worry so much about my students being on appropriate sites, or if they are messing around surfing the web. It is important for students to know how to search the internet for good information, but I don’t need all of my assignments to be about finding reliable websites. Therefore another thing I like about WebQuest is all of the websites needed for quest are already on the site and students can just do the work. In general, I think using WebQuests in the classroom will be exciting not just for the students, but for me too.