Promoting Student Inquiry: WebQuests to Web Inquiry Projects (WIPs)
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Dodge Bernie, Philip Molebash, San Diego State University, United States ; Randy Bell, University of Virginia, United States ; Cheryl Mason, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, in Nashville, Tennessee, USA ISBN 978-1-880094-44-0 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Waynesville, NC USA
Abstract
Abstract: By the earliest definition (Dodge, 1995) a WebQuest is "an inquiry-oriented activity in which most of the information learners work with comes from the web." WebQuests are defined first as being "inquiry-oriented," but are they truly an example of inquiry or are they something else? The majority of WebQuests fall under Herron's (1971) category of structured inquiry, but there are higher levels of inquiry desired by educators that are difficult to promote using the WebQuests model. Based on a spiral path of inquiry, Web Inquiry Projects (WIPs) are designed to promote such higher levels of inquiry, specifically Herron's levels of guided and open inquiry.
Citation
Bernie, D., Molebash, P., Bell, R. & Mason, C. (2002). Promoting Student Inquiry: WebQuests to Web Inquiry Projects (WIPs). In D. Willis, J. Price & N. Davis (Eds.), Proceedings of SITE 2002--Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (pp. 67-72). Nashville, Tennessee, USA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved March 22, 2023 from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/6687/.
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