Learning activity

Creating effective student groups

Foster Critical Thinking by receiving teacher feedback on AI-generated content

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Learning outcome

Prep time

Low (<10 min)

Activity type

Learning Activity

Why this learning activity?

Learning activities targeting high-order skills like this one can help you activate students more effectively. This learning activity will help you with:

Group dynamics awareness

Students will develop an understanding of effective group dynamics by identifying and reflecting on their own working styles and preferences, as well as those of their peers, facilitating better collaboration and teamwork.

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Teamwork skills

Students will enhance their teamwork skills by working in well-structured groups, learning to coordinate and cooperate effectively with peers who have complementary strengths and roles.

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Optimized collaboration

Students will experience improved collaboration and productivity by being part of well-matched groups, leveraging diverse strengths and roles to achieve common goals.

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Creating effective student groups

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Activity steps

Read Instructions: Carefully go through the provided instructions to understand the requirements of this activity. Pay attention to any specific guidelines or criteria mentioned by the instructor.
Hand in AI-generated answers: Come up with 5 questions for a certain topic, then use ChatGPT to generate answers to each question. Compile all these answers to a document then submit it to Assignment Review.
Teacher feedback: Your submissions will be closely analyzed by the teacher. They will annotate important sections and provide comments, feedback, questions, and give suggestions on how to curate the prompts for AI.
Read reviews and rate the given feedback: Read the feedback provided the teachers and rate these on the scale of 1 to 10
Self-reflection: Write a short reflection to reflect on the activity and received feedback

Learning Activities Used

Assignment Review

Meaningful teacher feedback to nurture a growth mindset

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Group Formation Tool allows teachers to make effective groups, automatically. Teachers can easily create inclusive and well-balanced groups, aiming to enhance group dynamics, learning outcomes, student satisfaction, and engagement.

These questions inquire about students:

Working preferences: location, time
Role they take in group work
Perception of personal strengths/skills

Currently students will be allocated to each other if they are similar on their preferences for working times and locations, but are different on their perception of roles they take, as well as personal strengths and skills.You can always edit these preferences in the steps of the activity.

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