We started planning our Web Quest Activity. My group has decided to use our Fourth Grade History Core Curriculum, more specifically with Dinosaurs and fossils.
Web Quests are a really good resource to have because it gives us a way to let our students interact, and use the internet as a positive tool in their learning without having to worry that they are running into bad sites. Plus this gives them the desired opportunity to use technology as a resource for learning.
I think that this could be a great tool in my class. This will be cool to use in class because then I can give out these web quest assignments and have them in return use technology as a way to show what they have learned. Its also nice just to know how to put something like this together because I am not naturally very good with computers, but using, and creating these kind of activities in class gives me hope that I really can provide this kind of learning for my future students.
I also really liked the assigned video that I watched. It was just a real eye opener to see the factual research behind how much technology our average student is using. I loved at the end how it said if you can't beat it than join it. Technology is a phenomenon that is becoming all encompassing in our current world and is only going to increase in years to come! We might as well use it to our benefit to engage our students and prepare them for the technological world they are entering.
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