


As part of a grad course I am taking I have been asked to evaluate web quests from
http://zunal.com/ and QuestGarden.com. First, I must say that I am shocked that more teachers don't use web quests. They are a perfect way to have students work collaboratively and/or at a higher level of thinking. Having said this, I was surprised when I evaluated about a dozen of these web quests at the low level of questions and tasks that were on them. Has nobody looked at Bloom's Taxonomy lately? Where are the questions that challenge students? Many of these web quests seemed like nothing more than busy work. I soon began to realize why teachers are not utilizing what could be a very good resource. I am therefore challenging myself (and others) to create web quests that stimulate kids, that use higher level thinking skills (compare and contrast, design, construct, formulate, etc.), and are more than busy work.
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