Supports the students' collaboration and facilitates the joint production of academic content

The students are introduced to a text for them to work with.

The students are divided in groups of 3-5 persons.

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Everybody reads the whole text, but each group is responsible for a special part of the text and becomes an ‘expert group’ for its part.

The teacher provides the groups with a set of reading questions to the individual text parts.

Each group discusses and answers the reading questions to the text for which it is responsible.This part of the activity is tun in Nuclino or Google Docs between classes.

In the next class, new groups are formed with representatives for each ‘expert group’.

The representatives of the ‘expert groups’ present the answers of their individual group to the other members of the new groups.The new groups reach a joint understanding of the whole text and publish a brief answer in a Padlet. (30-45 min.)

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The exercise is wrapped up by the teacher highlighting central points of the students’ answers. The students are allowed to ask further questions. (5-10 min.)

The teacher sets the students a task within a well-defined field.

The teacher forms groups of 3-4 students and gives each group a sub-task within the field.

The teacher makes a table of contents for the knowledge bank in Nuclino and sets up the individual sides for each sub-task.

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The groups gather information for their individual sub-task and write a text on the sides assigned to them - not just notes.

The teacher starts a peer-feedback-activity.

The groups adjust their texts based on the peer-feedback.

The groups read and discuss the whole text between classes.

The teacher gives general feedback on the whole knowledge bank.

The time required depends of the task, the amount of feedback, and the size of the knowledge bank.

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