After having read the Dodge article please apply at least one principle mentioned in the article to a concept applied within your own web quest. Discuss how you feel this enhanced your web quest and how you could make improvements in the future.
The think that stood out to me the most of the five principles was "chanllenge your learners to think". I think that it is so important that we really get the students involve in their learning. By using a webquest this will give the students the ability to think beyond what they might normally do. Having them have several activities and making it about 4-5 one hour lab classes can keep their minds stimulated and always thinking versus just a worksheet of fill in the blank answers. Dodge says "The key element of a great WebQuest is a great task". If we are using great tasks for out students they will hopefully always have an interest in learning and wanting to challenge themselves.
One thing that I might do differently next time is make myself more familiar with the first step "Find Great Sites". I think that this would definitely help with being able to create or have great tasks for the students. I know that at the UCET conference their was a seminar on how to properly use a search engine. I need to become more familiar with what can make my reasearch a lot easier by learning how to use the search engine website correctly.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Post for Reiser Reading
#1 Explore the link below. How are the examples of Integrated Final Projects and the methods described in the Reiser article related? What would it take to teach this way? Is it worthwhile?
The two articles are very similar similar in the fact that they are doing a lot of small group work. In the TEAMS article it talks about how the students rotate in groups from one station to the next station on a daily basis. They do this until the students have been part of all of the stations. I think that the TEAMS model is great because it helps provide teachers with some suggestions for the activities at each station. I like what it says in the TEAMS model "Project TEAMS is an approach for integrating instructional technology, interdisciplinary instruction, and active learning into the middle school curriculum". I think that this is exactly what the lesson plans are doing in the UEN website. Both the Reiser article and the UEN link are great for lessons because they both give a mulitidisciplinary approach to teaching. I think that this teaching style is great because it gives the students the opportunity to work in small groups and learn from eachother. Although it takes more collaborating I think that it is well worth the effort especially when studies show in the Reiser article that they students are learning from the program.
The two articles are very similar similar in the fact that they are doing a lot of small group work. In the TEAMS article it talks about how the students rotate in groups from one station to the next station on a daily basis. They do this until the students have been part of all of the stations. I think that the TEAMS model is great because it helps provide teachers with some suggestions for the activities at each station. I like what it says in the TEAMS model "Project TEAMS is an approach for integrating instructional technology, interdisciplinary instruction, and active learning into the middle school curriculum". I think that this is exactly what the lesson plans are doing in the UEN website. Both the Reiser article and the UEN link are great for lessons because they both give a mulitidisciplinary approach to teaching. I think that this teaching style is great because it gives the students the opportunity to work in small groups and learn from eachother. Although it takes more collaborating I think that it is well worth the effort especially when studies show in the Reiser article that they students are learning from the program.
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