Techniques in Selecting and

Organizing Information
BRAINSTORMING

By: Mrs. Merjuny B. Villanueva

BRAINSTORMING
› It helps the learners:
• establish patterns of ideas
• develop new ways of thinking
• create new ideas
• solve problems
• motivate and develop teams
• overcome mental block
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 RULES OF
SUCCESSFUL BRAINSTORMING

✓ write down all ideas

✓ the more ideas, the better
✓ wild, unusual ideas are
welcome
✓ feel free to take someone else's
idea and expand on it
✓ save criticism until the end of
the session
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VARIATIONS OF BRAINSTORMING

1. Rolestorming
Students role play different
characters to brainstorm .

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2. Brainwriting
Students write
down ideas and
pass them on to
other students who
expand on them .

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 3. Reverse
Brainstorming
Students come up with ideas for
producing a problem instead of
solving it.
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4. Mind Mapping
-a visual representation of
hierarchical information
that includes a central idea
surrounded by connected
branches of associated
topics

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