EDUC4105

Reflection, week 13

Webquests are a unique combination of both lesson planning and the lesson itself. A well-prepared Webquest should give such clear instructions it relieves students of verbal instruction and gives them a kind of working independence. If it is well scaffolded it should provided all the tolls and clues for the students to piece together the puzzle themselves, and in this way has good constructivist learning potential. The disadvantage is the potentially inflexible type of lesson plan. This inflexibility might result in restricting the abilities of the students, with a kind of fixed expectation. The chances of the students bringing in extra ideas or concepts can be limited by the inherent structure of the Webquests. As far as planning goes it offers a good opportunity to scaffold good group work for an individual class work by articulating each students role within each quest. It would take