Tips & Tricks

• The teacher must be the moderator of the activity, he is not the guide, he does not answer the questions, but he must moderate the interventions, so that the participants are respectful and encourage all students to participate in a balanced way.
• By assuming, with lateral thinking, that there is no single solution to each problem, it is necessary for the teacher to make a previous analysis of possible questions and optional situations, in order to have a broad and non-rigid vision of the possible ways of solution.
• As a methodology that aims to detect erroneous preconceptions, it is essential that all students intervene actively and without filters before, during and after posing the enigma. Language must be the vehicle of thought.
• It is necessary, to enhance the critical thinking of the student, that the further the course progresses, the more the students are the protagonists of this activity, being at the end of the course practically autonomous.
• It is important that the students are aware that this activity is important for the teacher, so it is necessary to have a record sheet of the evaluation of the activity to collect their participation and their evolution as they advance in the course.
• We cannot forget that, as at any time in the teaching work, self-evaluation is important, but also external evaluation, therefore in each session of this activity it is important to note problems and propose improvements both by the teacher and the feedback from the teacher. of the students.
• The interest that the activity arouses should be used to present the activity of the following didactic unit with its contents so that the students investigate the matter in advance, asking the person who has solved the enigma before to pose the enigma of the next topic.