One of the most common activities undertaken by students on the Internet is searching for information, often with the help of search engines like Google, AltaVista, Excite, Lycos or Yahoo. However, these investigations are difficult, time-consuming activities and that can be frustrating if the objectives are not clearly reflected and explained at first.
The WebQuests are structured and guided to avoid these providing students with a well-defined task and resource constraints and the slogans that allow them to perform activities. Instead of wasting hours searching for information, students are appropriated, interpret and exploit the specific information that the teacher assigns.
The WebQuest is an extremely simple model and rich learning to promote the educational use of Internet, based on cooperative learning and research processes to learn. It is a learning methodology based primarily on the resources provided by the Internet that encourage students to research, enhance critical thinking, creativity and decision-making, contributing to develop different skills and taking students to transform the knowledge acquired .
A WebQuest is focused on research activity, which information is used by students, mostly, downloaded from the Internet. Basically it is a targeted exploration, culminating in the production of a web page, where the outcome of an investigation is published.
This model created by Bernie Dodge in 1995 has more than 40,000 web pages, with proposals for educators in many countries. WebQuests have been designed for students to make good use of time and use oriented tasks rather than looking information. The Webquests arouse interest because they organize and direct the work of students and teachers.
As you can see, with this tool you can work all the CLIL's aspects using English to find out new information about different subjetcs.
Now, you can find here a WebQuest created by myself.
I hope you like it.
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