Reading about WebQuest besides what we read earlier in this course, made me feel ashamed of how primitive is our educational system. Because I haven't even heard about a teacher using any of the technologies and techniques we learnt, in her classroom. I couldn't find an excuse for not using the Internet and Web to enhance the educational process at our schools till now.
Understanding what a WebQuest is, took me a while, because it was totally a new thing. It also seemed vague for me at the beginning but, different samples made it easier and simpler. WebQuest is difind as " an inquiry oriented activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the internet, optionally supplemented with videoconferencing." The role of the teacher is either to bring the students an already-made WebQuest, or to design her own. The students are usually working in groups to complete the WebQuest assignment. They follow the instructions given in the WebQuest, so they can finish it the right way.
- As a student, I always find it useless to study things that are not relevant to my life, things that turn me off and make me bored and frustrated just by reading their topics, things like King Abdul-Aziz air port, or History of Saudi Arabia or Oil !!
- I don't see that the educational process should be boring and killing the students slowly in order to be successful, I think that we can be creative in delivering the information we expect our students to learn. As I always say, it's not about the fact or the piece of information, it's about how we present it.
- We don't expect our students to be like the previous ones, so we need to develop our techniques accordingly.
Based on what I mentioned above, I think I'm going to use anything that take my students' needs and wants into account. So, yes I'm definitely going to use WebQuest quite often, if it works with my students.
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