Via brainstorming we can pose attractive questions and capture the student’s attention as well as promoting their participation. In addition, this activity allows us to share different ideas, favoring the participation of all students and maintaining a certain anonymity, which eliminates the fear of being wrong or participating.
In the first place, it is necessary to distribute Post-it to all the students.
Secondly, we must design a suggestive and attractive question that encourages student’s participation. For example to study the circulatory system we can ask: what are the functions of the circulatory system?
Next, each student must provide at least two ideas and write them in a Post-it.
Subsequently all notes will be collected and pasted on the wall (students can place them themselves).
Collectively we can read and organize these ideas into categories. It is necessary to agree on the classification that will be carried out and those notes that are identical can be eliminated or combined.
Finally, we will have a set of ideas that we can discuss, relate or explore in greater detail.
The great advantage of this strategy is that it captures the diversity of points of view and previous knowledge allowing the participation of all students.
References:
- Education world (2004). Sticky-Note Brainstorming. Education world.
