Activity
Liberating Structures, Reflective activities, Warm up activities
Spiral Journal
Maha Bali
Mia Zamora
Promote focus and reflection while allowing individuals to compose responses thoughtfully and calmly in writing.
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Promote focus and reflection while allowing individuals to compose responses thoughtfully and calmly in writing. This can help generate and gather large amounts of data quickly and can amplify or punctuate large group interactions.
First day of class, beginning or end of class, beginning or end of a module or such.
Useful for encouraging focus, and especially helpful for reflective, shy students, or people who need more time to think before participating, or people for whom your language of instruction is not their first language.
It is useful in how it allows students reflection time, and not everything they write and think about during the activity needs to be shared, but they get time to reflect and choose what they wish to share (contrast with Mad Tea which is a much faster process with little reflection time, but has lots of energy).
About 10-12 minutes. The video above models it from start to finish. Additional resources below give you access to the slides and additional prompt ideas you can use to adapt the slides for your own purposes.
Here are some adaptations and alternative prompts:Â
Example prompts for each quadrant:
No specific technology required.
LS in Development text (Google doc, opens in a new tab)
Slides used in the session which people can adapt (Google slides, opens in a new tab)
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