In reading the overview of the Jigsaw Classroom, I was impressed with the way that it can blend differnt ethnicities together to reach a common goal. It seems to be genius yet simplistic to split up the lesson to be learned in different tasks and have the students search them out then put them together.
If there were only five computers in your classroom, the advantage would be that the first five students to seek out the pieces of the puzzle so to speak, and then know the answer to the puzzle before the rest of the class.
The disadvantages to only having five computers in a grade school environment would be that the dominant and bright students would find the answers quicker then the slower stuidents would. Also the brighter students would be bored easier than the other students, so possibly variety would have to be used to keep this method of learning fresh.
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