The Concept of Brainstorming
1. Definition of Brainstorming
Brainstorming strategy is one of the most important
strategies in provoking creativity and solving problems in the
educational, commercial, industrial
and political fields.
Brainstorming strategy was
introduced by Alex
Osborn, an American advertisement
company manager in
1938 as a
results of his
inconvenience of traditional
business meetings. Brainstorming means the use of brain to the active
problem solving and the brainstorming session a ims to develop creative
solutions to problems (Jarwan, 2005).
According to Isaksen (1998: 3) brainstorming is abbreviated
summary of how Osborn actually presented this well-known group approach to idea
generation is given.
Wilson (2006: 50-53) Brainstorming is a creativity method,
which aims at getting as many ideas as possible in a limited amount of time.
Brainstorming is a group method, meant to take place in meetings or sessions.
Traditionally the settings for a brainstorming session are a meeting room with
a blackboard and a group of people.
Facdev (2008: 1) Brainstorming is a cooperative approach in
which a number of people collectively agree upon a solution after all of their
ideas are brought forth and discussed. Brainstorming is a strategy used to
generate a number of ideas to help solve a particular problem. The technique
has been around for over 70 years and is still used today to engage students in
solving a range of problems.
2. The
Procedure of Brainstorming
A-blwi
(2006) mentioned for stages that must be
followed in problem solving within the brainstorming session, those are:
a)
Phrasing the
Problem: The teacher
who is responsible
on the sessions
offers a problem
and discusses its various dimensions for students to ensure
understanding.
b)
Framing
the problem: in this stage the teachers determines the problem accurately by
reframing the problem in certain questions. This may offer acceptable solutions
without the need for further brainstorming.
c)
Practicing
brainstorming for one or more than one statement in problem. This step is very
important as many ideas are generated.
Al-qarni
(2011) mentioned that this step needs:
a)
conducting
warming up session
b)
Receiving
ideas even if they were nonsense.
c)
Offering
the four principles of brainstorming on the board in order to bee seen by
students.
d)
writing
and presenting all ideas ( Proposed solutions).
e)
Frustration
and boring must be avoided.
