Selecting and Organizing Information - Brainstorming

SELECTING AND ORGANIZING INFORMATION

Motivation “Write it fast”• Class is divided into 4 groups

• Each group holds a white board and a marker

• The leader of each group goes in front, one of them picks a

category.

• The leaders go back to their teams and tell them the

category

• The teams then brainstorm words in the category and write

them down.

• The first team to finish shouts “STOP”

• The winning team calls out their answers. And the rest of the

team crashed out the answer what was mentioned.

Objectives

• define what is brainstorming

• enumerate the different techniques of brainstorming

• appreciate the importance of the use of different brainstorming techniques

• practice brainstorming techniques

Activity 1 “Five Things That….”

a. Each group must have 5 members.

b. Teacher calls out one of the categories and the students then brainstorm and write down five answers.

c. Each team gets a corresponding point for each answer that matches the survey’s answer.

d. The team with the most points at the end of the game is the winner.

Analysis

1. What did you do to find out what is being ask?2. Did your members contribute their own ideas

to the categories being required? How?3. If you are going to choose would you like to

brainstorm ideas alone or individual? Why?4. How were you able to organize the

information?5. What is brainstorming?6. How is brainstorming important to you as a

student?

Brainstorming

• an informal way of generating topics to write about, orpoints to make about your topic.

• is an individual or group activity.

• Using this technique, efforts are made to make a solutionto a particular problem

• Ideas are gathered and listed from the input of everymember.

Methods in Brainstorming

1. Idea list

2. Idea map

3. Free Writing

4. Cubing

5. Researching


1. Idea list- simply involves listing ideas about aparticular topic. It also helps you find themain idea and supporting details.- is appropriate to textual people, or thosewho are more comfortable in processingwords than visuals.-simply requires you to write the main topicand them write down all related conceptsbelow it.


1. Idea list (example)

Topic - Unemployment1. Jobs2. Poverty3. Salary4. Lack of education5. Lack of jobs6. Low salary7. Lack of money8. Fresh graduates

List down causes that are worth fighting for.

Try it!


2. Idea map

- also called webbing or clustering

- is a visual representation of ideas andtheir connections with one another.

- more structured and is able to showhow one idea subordinates another idea.


2. Idea map (example)

Unemployment

Effects

Causes

Lack of money

Emotional problems

Layoff

Lack of motivation

Lack of jobs

Family problems

Use mapping to write about OPM.

Try it!


3. Cubing- an idea is examined from six distinctviewpoints.

You describe the topic (what is it?) Compare and contrast it (what is it

like or unlike?) What do you associate it with(what

does it remind you of?) Analyze it (what are its parts?) Apply it (in what ways can it be

utilized) Argue for or against it (in what ways

can you support or oppose it)?


3. Cubing


3. Cubing exampleToo much money is spent on toys and games

Using cubing, write about K to 12.

Try it!


4. Free writing- set a time limit and number of wordsor pages. Just write. Do not edityourself.- it allows someone to work withoutinhibitions.- you turn off the editor in you andallow the writer in you free rein

4. Free writingSample Free Write about a name

CassandraShe is a fashionista.A Grade 11 student, Senior High, with moderately good gradesModerately popular, has a good group of friends and is generallywell-likedComes from a nuclear family: parents still together and an olderbrotherThe older brother is the black sheep of the family, the rebel,the trouble-makerAllergic to both cats and dogsRecently dumped by her highschool sweetheartLight brown hair with purple highlights running through it; a chicbob that comes to her chin, cut to that length after her break-upHas had the same best friend since the second grade, Erika,whom she first met at a neighborhood-wide birthday party forErika and her twin brother, StevenUnaware of Steven’s long-term crush on herLoves the rain, especially in the summer, but hates the rainydays; gets cold easilyConfident and likes to laugh, but is not very witty and not verygood at telling jokes

Do a five-minute example of free-writing on the subjectabout your plans on 2017 in 100 words.

Try it!


5. Researching- you go to the library or check outwebsites on the internet. Make a list ormap of the new ideas.

- is appropriate to textual people, or thosewho are more comfortable in processingwords than visuals.-simply requires you to write the main topicand them write down all related conceptsbelow it.

ASSESSMENT

In a ½ crosswise sheet of paper

Answer the following questions.

1. What is brainstorming?

2. What are the different techniques ofbrainstorming?

ASSIGNMENT

In a ½ crosswise bondpaper to be submitted next meeting.

1. Research about K-Pop.

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Selecting and Organizing Information - Brainstorming