Group Scribbles to Support Jigsaw Cooperative Learning in a Graduate Course

Group scribbles (GS) is an activity tool that enables the collaborative generation, collection and aggregation of ideas through a shared space. The aim of this study is to deploy GS with Tablet PCs to facilitate 12 graduate school students doing cooperative learning by the jigsaw method and to examine how GS supports the integrating the knowledge between original and expert group discussions. Results of this exploratory study suggested that GS-mediated cooperative learning jigsaw model could positively benefit students in their interaction and knowledge integration processes.