Day 19 3/30/10

On day nineteen of class we got into groups of four and each played a role to look at different webquests. The role I played was "The Altitudinist": Higher level thinking is everything to you. There's too much emphasis on factual recall in schools today. The only justification for bringing technology into schools is if it opens up the possibility that students will have to analyze information, synthesize multiple perspectives, and take a stance on the merits of something. You also value sites that allow for some creative expression on the part of the learner. To me a web quest should deliver the most information to analyze and do somthing with it. In my opinion, the Unraveling the Underground Railroad was the best site. It gave you alot of important information and what you need to know to get the task done. I think this webquest goes along with ISTE NET standard 3b: locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media. They have to research alot of information in a varity of ways and work as a group. This would be a good project for my future classroom beucase it helps the students to work together and solve a problem with their own creative ideas.