Blog #5 The Jigsaw

The jigsaw method is a great way to teach, I have had many of my professors in college teach some of their units that way. I feel like I remember the section I had to learn and present with my group very well. I think one of the draw backs to this method is of one group does not do a very good job on the task that was given the rest of the class will not get the information that is needed from those students. Also you have the problem of the slower student in the group who does not work at the same speed as people in the group. This can probably be remedied by having a good team leader that includes all peers equally and delegates well. 

If I only had five computers in my class, depending on the size of my groups and classes I could one computer per group, with the group leader using the keyboard. Or have the leader have someone use the keyboard to search for specific things that the leader and one other person suggests, and the others in the group will look for information in the text or other resources available to them.