Acquisition

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(icon) Activities that Engage with Participants

Engagement with participants is characterised by activities where students engage with others, provide self-disclosure, express agreement or debate, refer to other individuals by name, and ask questions.

Interactivity Focus

Face to face

Tutorial Activity Jigsaw Readings: 

This activity allows learners to build social connections and support each others' learning through by analysing ideas and concepts within readings and sharing their findings.

It is suitable for both face-to-face, blended and online learning. In addition, jigsaw readings activities make readings more engaging, accessible and much quicker for students.

Learners read different paragraphs with questions that correspond with the identified page numbers in each paper. The jigsaw readings come together as a whole article in follow up tutorials where learners take notes of each other's findings.

Ensure you provide clear instructions.

Example activity instructions:

• • • Find a partner for your Jigsaw reading partnership.
    • Gold Coast students paired up with a fellow student in class on Tuesday, so work with your partner.
    • Online students can pair up with one of their fellow online students on the ‘Jigsaw Reading Activity' discussion board forum or work on their own independently.
    • If you decide to work independently, on the discussion board, please notify your fellow online students which reading and pages you have chosen so we don't have the whole class doing the same reading.
    • On your own or with your jigsaw partner, choose either Ozlem Sensoy & Robin DiAngelo (2017), Jodi O’Brien (2017) or Mark Mckenna, (2018).
    • Each person individually focuses on either the first or second half of their chosen paper and addresses the corresponding questions.
    • In other words, you only read and answer the questions that correspond with the pages you have chosen to analyse individually.

Online