Jigsaw Method

Here is a reason to have 5-7 computers in any classroom with the main reason of share learning, other words jigsaw learning. I would want students to learn formulas and math skills as a group for the whole reason that when they grow up they are mostly going to be in a group setting at work. So each group of students have one computer in which each person in the group is given a randomly pick job to finish for the group. Now depending on the activity or project would depend on how much time on the computer the students get. I liked how the website Jigsaw said to have the students with the same task meet together before going to their own group. This is something I would like to add to teachers plans who plan to do this.

The advantage to this method is that it encourages listening, engagement, working as a team, depending on other, and efficiently learning the material. However, like all things in the world there bound to be some draw back somewhere. This method can have obstacles when there is a dominant student, and this can be fixed by making a leader of the group that is responsible for being fair and spreading participation evenly. Then you have a slow student can also cause problems, therefore the hope is that in the "expert" group (where the people with the same topic meet) that student can get help for others in the same topic and push them to getting better reports. The last down side is that Jigsaw can be an uphill battle if it is used in older kids that have never used it before because they might fight back.