Objective:
- To test or review key learning through an interactive game
Overview:
The activity can is best used as an ice breaker or as a revision technique as it is a fun method to start participants communicating and testing their subject knowledge and improving their subject judgement and decision making.
Activity:
- Give each individual 4 post-its or cards
- Give everyone 10 minutes to research or review their recent learning (or set this as a task the week before, in advance of this class) to determine 4 “facts” or knowledge that they will be using to test their fellow students with.
- After the research/review period, ask everyone to write 2 true facts, a lie (incorrect fact) and a point that is in debate in your field on each card.You can invite the students to be challenging in their statements, so that the fact may be basically correct, but there is a lie (incorrect element) which needs to be detected.
- Divide everyone into pairs or into 4s
- Each grouping need to identify their “truths” “lie” and which point is not yet confirmed/agreed upon within your subject area.
Once completed, the students need to produce their source material (reference; source; photo of quote etc) and their sources will be subject to comment by their partner.
If you want to create the review questions yourself to ensure that they are challenging and subtle enough to require analysis and critical judgement, you can issue the cards to the teams and circulate the cards amongst the groups.
Skill Development:
This quick challenge tests subject knowledge and can be challenging if the students create subtle statements. It can build their knowledge and
judgement if the “maybe” or “lie” require critical analysis and judgement, and (especially if you provide a longer research/review period) you can encourage the students to challenge each other. However there will be times when they need to make a decision with insufficient knowledge. Review of this activity ought to be undertaken to explore the subject material and also the pressure/time constraints of meeting the requirements of the game. Emotions are worth noting and pressure to create or answer the questions need to be recognised.
Resources:
- Post-its or cards (or paper)
- Pens
References:
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