Bringing what we have practiced into fruition allows us the unique opportunity to organize online lessons in a way that we sit fit to teach our students. However, when embarking on such a journey, information can become overwhelming. The Internet is such a vast and interesting place, filled with ideas from around the world. I have come to the crossroads of having so much information that I have trouble deciding which items will be most useful for my students.
This is where I found the textbook, specifically the beginning of chapter 6, to be especially useful. In my experience, when you find something to be too cumbersome, it is best to organize it. However, I was naive to what resources are available to teachers to organize online information, resources and tools.
Looking through these organizational resources, both in print and online, I became more comfortable with how I would begin my WebQuest Journey. Utilizing resources such as Delicious allowed me to see ways that I could organize my ideas for my students through the lens of the Internet.
Now that I am able to do so, I am much more confident about organizing my WebQuest in a way that is efficient and useful for my students.
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Questions:
1. What did you find to be most useful in Chapters 4 and 6?
2. How can we utilize this new information in a way that is beneficial for ourselves and our students?
3. How can we continue this pursuit of new knowledge after we move on from our graduate coursework?
For your second question, I think the fist problerm we have to solve is we have to know what kind of information do we need before we start to find it.If we don't have a specific direction or idea, we will be easily confused about the overwhelming information. When we think of a teaching point, we have to catch its characteristic. For example, fraction means a relationship of part-whole. Then we can think about which way can we explain this relationship most clearly.
ReplyDeleteI agree the chapter gave a pretty good foundation for what we need to do with our webquests. It will be important to organize it in a way that the students will be interested in the material yet still learn quite a bit.
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