Teachers usually need to enhance their students to become more active in thinking so they used the brainstorm to develop their ability of thinking , did this idea really enhance them for good thinking?
Brainstorming stimulate free associations and those associations are important for creative thinking (creative production is one of the key features of CT). This technique will stimulate ideas and could be used as a part of the first learning phase, so-called - evocation of previous knowledge.
one of the critiques of brainstorming is collaboration, which is not necessarily guaranteed.
i think you are also asking:
- what are the critique of brainstorming.
- is brainstorming complete/ sufficient to teach creativity, creative thinking, innovation
Brainstorming tehnique does not develop the ability of thinking. Thinking is a pocess that include analyze and synthesis of information, selection of idea.
In the contrary brainstorming give opportunity to release your subconcious in order to find in a mountain of rubish a brilliant (innovative) idea.
Brain storming is one of the best ways to enhance creativity in science provided that the scientists taking part of it have different scientific backgrounds. It is always good to look a t a new problem at different angles.
It's true that brainstorming doesn't develop the ability to thinking, but it's not the basic purpose of this technique. It's role is to provoke, to enhance, to motivate... learning process. And, when we think about collaboration in teaching/learning - that's necessary for teaching methods, not for teaching/learning techniques. Brainstorming is something like a provocateur of learning process .
Brainstorming is also important not as a teaching method and to provoke learning process , but to find out real innovative solutions. This technique can be used for solving real problems in the enterprise and it is important to learn students how to organise it.
Thank you for all nice answers, that means brainstorming still necessary in teaching process and to solve real problems.
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