Comments on: Way Beyond Webquests by Gary Stager http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/06/27/way-beyond-webquests-by-gary-stager/ Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:06:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Roxanne Glaser http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/06/27/way-beyond-webquests-by-gary-stager/#comment-38094 Roxanne Glaser Tue, 03 Jul 2007 03:12:44 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/06/27/way-beyond-webquests-by-gary-stager/#comment-38094 I always learn something when I listen to Gary. Here are my notes from his presentation at TCEA earlier this year. It adds to his "Who Should I Vote For?" example. http://www.edlink12.net/vcrox/2007/02/12/another-tcea-2007-best-kept-secret/ The "Who Should I Vote For?" activity is the type that if all the edubloggers got behind to create ideas for student activities and did them with students it would be great. Many times "thought leaders" just think and never do and that is a shame that they are not using those ideas to create amazing student opportunities and teach the teachers the facilitation skills needed to create success for students. Gary always shares what he has done with students and that is one thing that makes his sessions so engaging. I always learn something when I listen to Gary. Here are my notes from his presentation at TCEA earlier this year. It adds to his “Who Should I Vote For?” example.

http://www.edlink12.net/vcrox/2007/02/12/another-tcea-2007-best-kept-secret/

The “Who Should I Vote For?” activity is the type that if all the edubloggers got behind to create ideas for student activities and did them with students it would be great. Many times “thought leaders” just think and never do and that is a shame that they are not using those ideas to create amazing student opportunities and teach the teachers the facilitation skills needed to create success for students.

Gary always shares what he has done with students and that is one thing that makes his sessions so engaging.

]]> By: Moving at the Speed of Creativity » 2007 » July » 01 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/06/27/way-beyond-webquests-by-gary-stager/#comment-37895 Moving at the Speed of Creativity » 2007 » July » 01 Mon, 02 Jul 2007 01:40:03 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/06/27/way-beyond-webquests-by-gary-stager/#comment-37895 [...] I would like to see a wiki created which lists challenging questions to answer via creative Internet searches and utilization of other networking / knowledge creating skills. Gary Stager provided an example of a complex question that can lead to searches of this type in his NECC presentation “Way Beyond Webquests,” in the activity “Who Should I Vote For” about the Iraqi elections in December 2005. I learned a great deal in a short amount of time about Iraqi political parties, and I would have enjoyed and benefited from even more time to explore this subject with other learners in a collaborative investigation. [...] [...] I would like to see a wiki created which lists challenging questions to answer via creative Internet searches and utilization of other networking / knowledge creating skills. Gary Stager provided an example of a complex question that can lead to searches of this type in his NECC presentation “Way Beyond Webquests,” in the activity “Who Should I Vote For” about the Iraqi elections in December 2005. I learned a great deal in a short amount of time about Iraqi political parties, and I would have enjoyed and benefited from even more time to explore this subject with other learners in a collaborative investigation. [...]

]]> By: Change Agency - Advocating a better education system for the 21st Century. » Snippets From NECC 2007 Wednesday June 27th http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/06/27/way-beyond-webquests-by-gary-stager/#comment-37287 Change Agency - Advocating a better education system for the 21st Century. » Snippets From NECC 2007 Wednesday June 27th Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:30:20 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/06/27/way-beyond-webquests-by-gary-stager/#comment-37287 [...] Way Beyond Webquests (Gary Stager) — Wesley Fryer, Megan Golding [...] [...] Way Beyond Webquests (Gary Stager) — Wesley Fryer, Megan Golding [...]

]]> By: lajones http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/06/27/way-beyond-webquests-by-gary-stager/#comment-37248 lajones Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:30:58 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/06/27/way-beyond-webquests-by-gary-stager/#comment-37248 Thank you for sharing your notes! They are very interesting and I look forward to reading anything that you might choose to write up about that session. These ideas are so important. Education is really not about distributing bits of information, it's about a student's ability to reason and synthesize what they need and what in order to direct their future. I suspect that new technologies will constantly be developed to support this idea. (That is once it is really understood.) So keep writing! Thanks again. (ps-I'm a high school math teacher in Missouri) Thank you for sharing your notes! They are very interesting and I look forward to reading anything that you might choose to write up about that session. These ideas are so important. Education is really not about distributing bits of information, it’s about a student’s ability to reason and synthesize what they need and what in order to direct their future. I suspect that new technologies will constantly be developed to support this idea. (That is once it is really understood.) So keep writing! Thanks again.
(ps-I’m a high school math teacher in Missouri)

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