The broken telephone game as a tool for effective knowledge sharing and building effective communication

 

It is a game where you come up with a phrase and then you whisper it into the ear of the person sitting next to you. Next, this person has to whisper what he or she heard in the next person’s ear. This continues in the circle until the last person has heard the phrase. The trick is that you have only one chance to whisper the phrase, no repeating is allowed. Whatever you hear, you pass along the best you can to the next person. When the phrase comes around to the last person in the circle, he or she says it out loud. The game finishes by comparing the original phrase to what the last person heard and said.

It is a very entertaining and enjoyable game and, at the same time, brings out several important messages for effective communication, which  is also the key to effective knowledge sharing.

The activity was implemented for the third grade students by the teachers Dimitra Karadimou and Panos Kourtidis. Τhere is parental consent for the publication of the photographs!!