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My partner Nadine and I posted our thoughts on separate tables for this reading and spoke to each other over the phone as well for this activity.  I felt I was weak in my views on the PMI Table as I did not link all of them to a teaching environment.  Also, I did not collaborate enough with Nadine.  However I see the benefits of using this routine as it would support greater thinking in breaking down a task into simpler parts, especially if the task seems overwhelming, but it would also push a student to consider other ideas, deal with the weaknesses and the problems as well.  See below link to view our tables.

Microsoft Office 2011

http://moodle.cqu.edu.au/mod/wiki/view.php?id=163903&page=view/Gardner%27s%20Multiple%20Intelligences 

Use in a teaching context:
Great!  Expert jigsaw strategy was used in this activity along with PMI scaffold and this would be very useful technique in a classroom as it is a cooperative learning.   A teacher would have to be careful with the diverse needs of the students in the group work as a more dominant student may overpower the shyer one or the bright student will get bored and the slower one will not keep up to the work.  Constructivism is here as the student has their own ideas and brings them into the group to collaborate and they are refined.  Each student part is important to bringing the big picture together in the task.  Cognitivism would be seen as the students work through their own work, team up and then return to the group work for the final presentation - learning is being mapped. Also, at the beginning they are working through their sensory and working memory, but hopefully by the end the final presentation embeds some information into the long term memory and they receive intrinsic learning. Connectivism is here because we don't know everything and we can always learn from someone or something else.

Continuing the journey........Simone