Jennifer,
Since this comes at a natural "summing up" time for the course and before
they take the exam, is there any way to have the "game" be about quality of
questions they might write vs. answers to yours?
Perhaps you give them a key concept that will be covered on the exam, and
the challenge is to have each team write a question and plausible answer
choices that get to the heart of applying the concept (they should also
supply a "key"). Then, the whole class votes on the best team Q & A per
concept. In this way, it could be a review session that not only judges
their understanding of key course concepts, but also their incorporation of
TBL. I know, writing projects are the toughest team tasks. But maybe by this
time in the semester they could handle a short focused, in-class effort
around a concept question and 4-5 answers, a process that has been modeled
to them through TBL up to this point in the semester.
Good luck and let us know how the game goes.
Thx,
John
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On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Bradetich, Judi <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> I have my classes play Power Point Jeopardy. I haven't done it with large
> numbers of teams, but it seems like Whiteboard would make it fairly easy to
> see who has the answer first.
>
> Judi Bradetich, M.S., M.M.
> Lecturer, Development and Family Studies
> Dept. of Educational Psychology
> University of North Texas
> ________________________________________
> From: Team-Based Learning [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Jennifer Imazeki [[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 9:37 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: team 'games'?
>
> Hi all,
>
> As the semester winds down, I was thinking about making the last class
> meeting (which will be mostly review) a sort of team competition. That
> is, as a way of reviewing the semester's material, have teams compete
> to answer review questions. I have thirteen teams and they typically
> use whiteboards to report their application answers so I guess I'm
> thinking something like the first team to raise their whiteboard gets
> the chance to answer the question (of course, a 'good' answer will
> depend on their justification of their choice). I'm just curious if
> anyone has done something like this and if so, a) do you think it was
> a useful exercise and b) how exactly did you set things up (e.g., did
> you let the team decide who on the team would answer for the team or
> is it better to pick someone randomly; if the team's response isn't
> that great, how do you choose another team to challenge, etc.)? I
> guess my concern is that after a semester of encouraging students to
> get input from everyone on their team to craft a consensus, creating a
> competition might lead them to just rely on their 'strongest' member
> to simply answer for them.
>
> thanks,
> Jennifer
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> Jennifer Imazeki
> Department of Economics
> San Diego State University
> homepage: http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~jimazeki/
> Economics for Teachers blog: http://economicsforteachers.blogspot.com
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