Cisco Systems CCNA 2 manual Jigsaws, Jigsaw Puzzle

B.4.4 Jigsaws

Figure 1: Jigsaw Puzzle

The teaching and learning strategy known as the expert jigsaw was configured by Elliot Aronson in the late 1970s. This strategy asks students to explore new information within the dynamics of a group setting. Cooperative group skills are a prerequisite for this type of learning. Students are divided into three groups, which are called home groups. Each group is assigned a number or a name. The content to be learned is broken into three sections. The content is distributed so each home group receives one of the three sections of content. The use of color codes is a useful technique to implement within this activity. Three different colors are used to distinguish between the three content sections to be learned. Members from each group move to an expert group where the main points of the content are discussed. Members of the expert group process this new information and return to their home groups to teach other members the main points of what they learned from the activity. Research states that this is one technique that stimulates significant learning within the brain since it requires critical analysis and articulation before the acquired knowledge can be taught to others.

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Training: How To Do Tasks: http://www.cvm.tamu.edu/wklemm/logic10.html

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