Tonight we're exploring ways in which we can support students in tackling material that might be too complex or complicated for them to do without some help. Scaffolding gives them structures and help to process information, transform it or produce outputs. These are temporary structures that allow them to function at a higher level than really are capable of performing without those structures.
All of this springs from the belief of being constructivists teachers and the models of WebQuests is clearly a of constructivst bent. Towards that Bernie Dodge offers this as evidence, " WQ offers useful inputs, it gives transformation of information into new forms and WQs guide students into making products that represent new knowledge". To me, that seems to personify what constructivist learning is all about.
We will explore the three major ways we can support students as they go through a WQ tonight.
As they begin to receive the information--------------Reception
As they begin to thrink about the informtion.---------Transformation
As they begin to report out about what they learned-Production
these structures combined with your links will then begin to form the heart of your WQ. When we return in January, we will combine all of this with some of the Templates that you may have already thought were possibilities and plunge ahead in writing. We can write the first WQ as a simple lesson with links and see how that goes and then add the more complex tasks after a trial run on the simple level. So by the end of TT2 , you will have a full blown WQ!!!!
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