A Pattern Language for WebQuests and Other Learning Environments

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A Pattern Language for WebQuests and Other
Learning Environments

• Bernie Dodge
• San Diego State University
• http//edweb.sdsu.edu/
• webquest/necc2001/

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Theft or Smarts?

• The Fairy Tales Heist

• The Hijack of Canada

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Patterns History

• Derived from the writings of architect
  Christopher Alexander
• Later embraced by the object-oriented programming
  community

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Patterns Definition

• A pattern is the abstraction from a concrete
  form which keeps recurring in specific
  non-arbitrary contexts.
• -- Dirk Riehle Heinz Zullighoven

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Patterns Definition

• A pattern is a named nugget of insight that
  conveys the essence of a proven solution to a
  recurring problem within a certain context amidst
  competing concerns.
  --- Brad Appleton

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QWAN
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QWAN

• the essence of all things living and useful that
  imparts to them qualities such as freedom,
  wholeness, completeness, comfort, harmony,
  habitability, durability, openness, resilience,
  variability and adaptability.
• Its what makes us feel alive and sated,
  gives us satisfaction, and ultimately improves
  the human condition.

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• A well-designed lesson is like a well done
  painting.

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Professions the Tower of Babel
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Goals for Using Design Patterns

• Common language
• Efficiency through reusability
• Longevity for good ideas

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Layers of Description
General Principles
Generic WebQuest Templates
Specific WebQuests
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Layers of Description
General Principles
Generic WebQuest Templates
Design Patterns
Specific WebQuests
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Parts of a Design Pattern

• Name
• Description
• Goals
• Applicability
• Examples
• Related Patterns
• Implementation Details

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Example Design Pattern

• Name Genre Study
• Purpose To teach the structure and variations of
  a genre and more generally to teach that most
  understandable writing is based on some set of
  conventions. To teach a general approach to
  analysis and to guide observation and close
  reading.

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Example Design Pattern

• Applicability Can be applied to any form of
  expression that can be read fairly quickly and
  for which there are at least a half-dozen
  examples accessible on the web. Can be applied
  not only to written and oral forms (folk tales,
  fairy tales, limericks, jokes, riddles, etc.)
  but to visual forms (editorial cartoons,
  propaganda posters, television ads).

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Example Design Pattern

• Limitations Should not be used with forms of
  expression that would take too long to get
  through (e.g. novels). Care must be taken not to
  oversimplify the genre (as might happen with a
  rich form like haiku).

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Example Design Pattern

• Variations If time does not permit doing both
  phases, do one half or the other. That is, stop
  at the analysis phase and end with a class
  discussion of the genre. Or begin with a
  completed analysis and use that as the jumping
  off place for students to create a new instance
  of the genre.

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Design Pattern Example

• Implementation Details will be described in the
  form of a template.

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Time Capsule Pattern
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Travel Account Pattern
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Simulated Diary Pattern
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Parallel Diary Pattern
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Whats Next?

• Create Dictionary of Design Patterns
• Create templates for each pattern

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Whats Next?

• Post templates on theSDSU WebQuest site and the
  Kiko Digital Educator Network site.

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Like to Help?

• Explore the newMatrix of WebQuest Examples
• Look for well done lessons that could be
  generalized to other content
• Suggest them as the basis of a design pattern

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A Pattern Language for WebQuests and Other
Learning Environments

• Bernie Dodge
• San Diego State University
• http//edweb.sdsu.edu/
• webquest/necc2001/