Lost in Thought

Jane and I have been working on Webquests for our immersion activity. This is a term that I had never heard of before and I expect would never have come across but for this course.

As a prospective maths and science teacher I can imagine this type of activity benefiting everyone in the classroom.

But it has to be an authentic Webquest. As Tom March points out in his article students must search for information on the web and then transform it in some way to promote the “aha” experience. It is not just cutting and pasting – each student is assigned a role, carries out their investigation and then the team use their new knowledge to form something new.

There are heaps of webquests that have already been desined and are ready for use – take a look at bestquest and WebQuest.org.