Doing the jigsaw as an online assignment was very different from a in class learning environment. It gave everyone from our home group to read at their own pace, take notes, and then collaborate. What made it easier was that we discussed our articles through text, so it gave me the ability to go back reread what was said and grasp the knowledge that I needed in order to discuss it with my expert group (a group who is unfamiliar with your text and you have to tell them what your article was about). Compare this to having to talk in class about what we have read may go in one ear and out the other making it hard to actually learn from others take on the same article. The benefits with this activity is seeing other people's perspective on the same article through text and being able to bounce off of one persons idea. As well as elaborate on their ideas.
The challenge about this assignment may have to be the timing. Not everyone has the same schedule and we all had different openings in our schedule that made us all over the place. It made the assignment hard to get done. My expert group already spoke to their home groups and I had not spoke to my home group. This made my groups over lap in time, which meant we had to rush the PowerPoint. Although my expert group got it done, it was just rushed on my part. However, seeing the themes that my expert group found in their article made me sit back and go "oooooou". I would of never thought of the themes that my other group members thought about. It actually helped me think of my article in a different way just from the themes that was sought in my other groups articles.
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| Lol! This is so creepy, but funny. Not this kind of Jigsaw another kind. |
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