Kate set up a Jigsaw reading exercise for us in class. There was a piece of information for us to read but instead of everyone reading the whole paper we were broken into groups and told to feedback on one section to the class.
We used this technique in Exercise perscription with descriptions of program design. There were 5 concepts so each group took 1 and had to be ready to teach the rest of the class. The class was quite large so you could see there were some students doing the work and others that weren't engaged. To rectify this, the next time we used this activity the groups were told they would be broken up into twos to form new groups so that each member of the group was going to have to explain/teach their concept to their new group. This worked well to ensure every student was engaged.
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