Hello Everyone,
I would like to share with you the advantages and disadvantages about WebQuests.
The advantages of using WebQuests are the following:
WebQuests are useful on-line tools where teachers post atractive and guided tasks to their students in order to make them active participants of their own learning.
WebQuests are useful on-line tools where teachers post atractive and guided tasks to their students in order to make them active participants of their own learning.
A WebQuest is made up by some elements such as: introduction, task, resources, process, evaluation, and conclusion. Evidently, teachers provide the resources, as consequence students use the down loaded information from internet to solve or complete a task. The purpose is to encourage students' collaborative work on a project, to develop both their critical-thinking and their power of analysis.
The disadvantages of using WebQuests are the next:
Students need to have a certain level of reading and language ability in order to follow and understand instructions.
Teachers might spend a lot of time designing a webquest.
Webquests are not the best way to teach facts and content, simple procedures and definitions. However these inconveniences can be coped with practice.
In my opinion, I found WebQuests as another atractive way to encourage students go beyond with their knowledge using internet as the tool to complete a guided homework.
Thanks for your comments! See you
Ruth V. Aparicio Hdez.
Hi Ruth,
ResponderEliminarI've read your post and I found it very interesting as you wrote it WebQuest have a lot of advantages and just few disadvantages but I think this is a good way to students get a meaningful learning and as you commented on my post, solve the challenges they have to complete because teachers are not always going to give us all the information and we have to do it by ourselves.
Take care :D