Screen 13 -- Should Support Engaged Investigation

"Using WebQuests for inquiry-based learning represents a higher-order use of technology. It requires students to analyze and synthesize information and exercise information seeking strategies that represent higher levels of cognition than simple knowledge acquisition. Identifying strategies that help the learner to be savvy about how to select sites, extract relevant information from those sites, and then synthesize that information in meaningful ways is an important endeavor to educators at all levels" (MacGregor and Lou 172).

"A WebQuest can help students learn to ask good questions about phenomena, thereby apprenticing them to the intellectual stance of academic literacy" (Peterson, et al 38).