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Benton, Raymond, Jr. – College Teaching, 2016
In this article Raymond Benton, Jr. describes how he implemented a variation on Eliot Aronson's (Aronson et al. 1978) "jigsaw classroom" activity. While there are similarities between Aronson's jigsaw classroom and what is described here, there are differences as well. In Aronson's system, the classroom was divided into subgroups. Each…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Group Activities, Classroom Techniques, Assignments
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Gunnarsson, Bjorn Levi; Alterman, Richard – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2014
Promoting blog content is a social activity--a means of communicating one student's appreciation of another student's work. This article explores the feasibility of using student promotions of content, in a blogosphere, to identify quality content, and implications for students and instructors. We show that students actively and voluntarily…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Web Sites, Diaries, Social Media
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Quinn, Josephine – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2003
Presents an example of a completed Patchwork Text assignment written by one of the students in a course for primary school student teachers becoming specialists in science. Writing examples are provided under these main topics: What is Science?; Science and Society; Science and the Media; Science and Religion; and Science and Stereotypes. (AEF)
Descriptors: Assignments, Cooperative Learning, Course Content, Instructional Innovation
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Conner, David B. – Teaching of Psychology, 1996
Describes a college psychology course activity designed to help students define the parameters of cognitive psychology. Students selected a feature film and a journal article that represented some aspect of cognitive psychology. They then wrote a paper discussing the theoretical and empirical connections between the sources and the topic. (MJP)
Descriptors: Cognitive Psychology, Content Analysis, Cooperative Learning, Film Study