Thursday, February 5, 2009

WebQuest

A webquest is an online activity in which learners use information gathered from pre-selected Internet sites to increase their knowledge and skills.

Webquest helps students' metacognition more efficient especially solving cases that have been presented on Internet. The capacity of the learners learning will be enhanced because they are engaged of distinctive ways on solving a certain case, thus, critical and logical thinking is being used. Also, including to a real world sceranio that learners can assimilate the learning, however, it is a scaffolded learning which would help them resolving a given scenario or problem.

Webquest helps teachers discussion faster and could be one of the teachers strategies. Teachers are engaging students to become more knowledgeable and flexible to resolve a problem. Metacognition is developing, thus, this would create a successful result in part of students.

It is not only students are learning but as of teachers also because as the learners doing their activities, teachers facilitate them that at the same time they are also learning ideas from their students on how they solve it.

Webquest would be applicable in our country by applying and using of it, thus, it gives more help to students to become more knowledgeable and to show-off their skills and for the teacher can contribute a facilitated learning on students.