Article Response: The Learning Power of Webquests

Wow! This article is really heavy duty! It makes me question whether or not my plan for my WebQuest would be acceptable to the author's guidelines. He maintains that a WebQuest should require the learner to make something new, which I certainly understand, that being the pinnacle of learning on Bloom's taxonomy. He does realize that some basic fact finding is necessary. A student can begin a Quest with fact retrieval and then go on to use that information to solve problems and predict outcomes. I spent some time browsing through a few of the WebQuests created by the author. They all involved working in groups and were, in my opinion, very challenging.