The Jigsaw Method

This quest in my class was about the Jigsaw Method. The Jigsaw method was created to help students learn to work well with students they might not work with if they got to choose. The way it works is you split your class into small groups and assign each group member a topic. Say you are having your students do a report on ocean life. You would split your students up into small groups of five, and give each individual student a certain topic such as plant life, ocean predators, small fish, deep sea creatures, and animals that live both in the ocean and out of the ocean. Those students would get with other students with their same topics and research them together. They would then come back to their original group, reporting what they have learned. The original group would then put their report together having a lot of information from many different people. Kind of like putting a jigsaw puzzle together!  

How could you use the jigsaw method in your classroom if you only had 5 computers? 

You could use the Jigsaw method by assigning your students into five different groups and have them all share a computer.

What could be an advantage of this method?

An advantage of this method would be that the students could quickly and efficiently get the work done.

What could be a disadvantage?

A disadvantage could be that sometimes students don't like sharing or working in groups. Some younger students might not yet have the social or computer skills to work in a group.