Herramientas de mediación didáctica en entornos virtuales: Las webqests

Abstract

To a great extent, the educational value of the Internet depends on the ability of educators to develop simple and efficient strategies to incorporate the potential of the Web into the design of their curricula in a natural and intuitive manner. This article analyses the one of the most promising and far-reaching didactic protocols: WebQuests. From a purely constructionist philosophy, the use of Webquests aims to implicate students in actively building and enriching their knowledge base through Web-assisted research. Students are encouraged to perform comprehensive analyses of their information sources, be critical in their examination of the contents, and more often than not, actively debate their findings and conclusions.