There are advantages and disadvantages of internet in the classroom for both students and teachers. Children today are known as ‘digital natives’ and in the class room’s; internet learning, design thinking, activity-based learning, problem based learning and achieving higher order thinking in students are essential elements to create successful learners. Teachers can utilise the design-thinking framework as a tool to integrate with the internet to create inquiry based learning activities and to encourage students to practice high-order thinking skills. As well as design thinking, inquiry based strategies will engage students in problem based learning. With the correct teaching strategies, teachers can facilitate complex tasks that engage students
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The webquest engages with resources that have been carefully selected to allow more time for students to analyse and synthesis the information, rather than irrelevant or outdated information. The Duration of the webquest will be carried out in hour sessions once a week over a ten week term. This is considered to be a ‘long-term WebQuest,’ meaning it allows the students to interact with the material for an appropriate length of time in order to produce a product at the end of it (Russel et al., 2008). Breakfast Mission encourages the students to compare, classify, list, induce, deduce and analyse errors and perspectives of breakfast in order to promoted nutrition and food safety to their school community: (Dodge, 2008) this is evident in the Process and Role section of the webquest. Breakfast Mission being a ‘long-term Webquest’ also allows for the teacher to include a variety of different learning experiences that cater for individual learning …show more content…
The webquest aligns with the Australian Curriculum and allows students to ‘…critique, analyse and evaluate problems…identify and create solutions’ (ACARA, 2015). Students are given the opportunity to demonstrate these skills when researching and surveying the school on breakfast statistics. They then are required to evaluate this information in alignment with resources on the webquest in order to produce a product to suit their schools needs. The webquest allows the students investigate their own breakfast habits and evaluate differences within the
The webquest engages with resources that have been carefully selected to allow more time for students to analyse and synthesis the information, rather than irrelevant or outdated information. The Duration of the webquest will be carried out in hour sessions once a week over a ten week term. This is considered to be a ‘long-term WebQuest,’ meaning it allows the students to interact with the material for an appropriate length of time in order to produce a product at the end of it (Russel et al., 2008). Breakfast Mission encourages the students to compare, classify, list, induce, deduce and analyse errors and perspectives of breakfast in order to promoted nutrition and food safety to their school community: (Dodge, 2008) this is evident in the Process and Role section of the webquest. Breakfast Mission being a ‘long-term Webquest’ also allows for the teacher to include a variety of different learning experiences that cater for individual learning …show more content…
The webquest aligns with the Australian Curriculum and allows students to ‘…critique, analyse and evaluate problems…identify and create solutions’ (ACARA, 2015). Students are given the opportunity to demonstrate these skills when researching and surveying the school on breakfast statistics. They then are required to evaluate this information in alignment with resources on the webquest in order to produce a product to suit their schools needs. The webquest allows the students investigate their own breakfast habits and evaluate differences within the