Reflection (4): WebQuest

            

What is Web Quest?

  It is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web. Also we can say that it is an educational model for the light regulation of information easier for the learner to explore and draw using the computer knowledge and source of knowledge available on the internet, and facilitate the evaluation of student performance and measure the development of higher mental skills as Bloom’s Taxonomy of mental processes such as analysis and synthesis. These can be created using various programs, including a simple word processing document that includes links to websites.

What are the aims of using Web Quest?

  Web Quest gives students the functions and specific activities to enable them to use source of knowledge available to solve the problems raised in addition to learning life skills such as discovery, reasoning and inference and generalization, so the responses when dealing with knowledge is not specified in advanced, but there is creativity and learning an active and sustainable.

  Also Web Quest is a modern and fantastic occupancy and activation of the students to explore knowledge in a planned and sequential through educational activities, methods of technology and work groups such as the methods of problem solving and active learning effective, which makes the student center of educational way.

  Further to know Web Quest allows students to explore specific issue and achieved self-knowledge and achieve the building of his own knowledge and creativity of this, the student can deal with knowledge in a way beneficial process does not depend on the conservation and memorization.

For an excellent Web Quest:

 
Web Quest should be well suited to all levels of students must also contain educational activities and develop the capacities of their different needs and allows them to deal with the educational content and knowledge and develop a balanced personality that stands for all the views and possible solution to the issue of research.