Welcome to the Faculty of Education, CUHK

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Welcome to the Faculty of Education, CUHK
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Using WebQuest and Concept Map Tool to Facilitate
Students Self-learning
All the ideas about WebQuest in this presentation
are based on Dr Bernie Dodges work
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What EMB wants the school to do in curriculum
reform?
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The answer

• WebQuest

Exploring Activity
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WebQuest????

• Learning from the Internet Information to
  knowledge through inquiry

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The WebQuest(ions)

• An inquiry-oriented activity
• Teachers choose Web resources for students to use
• Support higher order thinking skills analysis,
  evaluation and synthesis of information
• Scaffolding (to be elaborated in next session)
• Material is learned better when it is presented
  in scaffolding forms
• Situated Cognition
• Learning is optimized when material is presented
  in context (contextual learning)

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The WebQuest Model

• Introduction
• sets the stage and provides some background
  information.
• An instructional set that stimulates prior
  knowledge and prepares students for new learning.
• Task
• The challenge or conflict to be addressed in the
  WebQuest activities

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The WebQuest Model

• Process
• students go through in accomplishing the task
• Collaborative teams are formed
• Specific guided activities
• Information sources
• information needed to complete the task
• Web-based
• Print or video resources

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The WebQuest Model

• Evaluation
• Criteria in rubrics presented to students to
  supply information for various levels of learning
  targets
• Conclusion
• The closure to the quest
• Reminds the learners about what they've learned
• Teachers page
• information to help other teachers to implement
  the Webquest, including target learners,
  curriculum contents, notes for teaching the unit,
  and, in some cases, examples of student work.

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WebQuest Creation
Technical Knowledge
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WebQuest Creation
Technical Knowledge
Pedagogical Knowledge
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WebQuest Creation
Technical Knowledge
Pedagogical Knowledge
FTP
Web Editing
Aesthetics
Searching
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WebQuest Creation
Technical Knowledge
Pedagogical Knowledge
FTP
Web Editing
Constructivism
Scaffolding
Aesthetics
Higher Level Thinking
Searching
Cooperative Learning
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A Rubric for Evaluating WebQuests

• Click the link below
• and the link
• Comment on some of the WebQuest based on that
  rubric

http//webquest.sdsu.edu/webquestrubric.html
http//course.fed.cuhk.edu.hk/community/webquest/
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The Use of Concept Map to Design and Develop a
WebQuest

• For reference, the Use of Concept Map in Teaching
  and Learning
• http//www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/conceptmap/50us
  es.html

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What is concept map ?

• Concept map is a tool for organising and
  representing knowledge/information in graphs
• This technique was developed by Prof. Joseph D.
  Novak at Cornell University in the 1960s
• This work was based on the theories of David
  Ausubel, who stressed the importance of prior
  knowledge in being able to learn about new
  concepts (Learning hierarchy)

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What is concept map ?

• Concept Map is the process of identifying
  important concepts, arranging those concepts
  spatially, identifying relationships among those
  concepts, and labeling the nature of the semantic
  relationships among those concepts.
• Learning is part of the process of assimilating
  new concepts into existing cognitive structures

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The components of concept map

• Knowledge graphs consist of
• nodes (points/vertices)
• links (arcs/edges).
• Nodes, by enclosing words, represent concepts or
  ideas
• Links, by words and lines, represent the
  relations between concepts
• Concept map whose links are attached no words is
  called idea map

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A concept map example
Another one In Chinese using Inspiration 7.6
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Hands-on Activity

• Learning Inspiration 7.6

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Developing a concept map
The steps below are based on the
reference Jonassen, David H., Beissner,
Katherine, Yacci, Michael. (1993). Structural
knowledge Techniques for representing,
conveying, and acquiring structural knowledge.
Lawrence Hillsdale, NJ Erlbaum Publishers.
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Steps

• Identify a set of important concepts by words in
  a task
• At the top of the map, use a circle to enclose
  the most important concept (word)
• Rank all other concepts (words) in order of
  importance use the same shapes of enclosure to
  enclose all concepts of the same rank
• Connect lines and add link words of all the
  original important concepts
• Re-evaluate this temporary product by considering
  the relevance of nodes and links
• Re-connect lines, add or drop important
  concepts if necessary

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A demo of the steps of development

• Using Inspiration 7.6

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Group assignments for discussion in second session

• Select a topic in a KLA
• Use the Inspiration to design the tasks of a
  WebQuest

Example
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How to submit your assignments?

• Send with file attachment to your instructors
  e-mail address
• In the Inspiration file, there is a text box with
  your name
• The file name is the event code (such as AA, ..
  AD) and your name. For example, AA_chantaiman.isf
• Deadline 72 hours before the second session

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End of Session 1

• Thank you !
• See all of you in Session 2