This pictures were from my Fundamental of IS class January 2023 semester. It is one of my favorite activity to do. It is called the Jigsaw activity or some might call it as The Walkthrough activity because you have to literally walk through one station to another station to get a complete cycle of the material.
This activity is basically putting students in the driver's seat. That is what I like about this activity. One thing that I like is that students have to explain whatever that they have learned to another student thus increasing their retention and understanding.
The activity starts with their own group. Then in the group, I let them count to 4 and repeat counting if the the team members are more than 4 people. Why 4? Because they are 4 topics. Four groups were formed based on the four topics and I call this group the Expert group. Then, I would ask the students to go to their respective Expert Group whether is Group 1,2,3,4.
Next, they have to prepare a presentation slides using the mahjong paper of the topic that they are being assigned to. Everybody needs to contribute. Once they have done with the mahjong paper they have to put the paper on the wall. After preparation time is up. They go back to their normal group and they make rounds explaining the topic. In a group, one or two students might be an expert at each station, so these students have to present to their colleagues.
It was a fun activity and the students LOVE it. This will work effectively, if you have a venue like the one in the pictures with students between 30 students or so. The more topics, the more station you have and more time that the students need to complete a cycle.
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