Brainstorming!

Today, Mr.Paterson taught us the best brainstorming strategies, and used those to come up with ideas of our own for our project. Disney's brainstorming business is thriving, so they continue making tons and tons of money. They use four important steps of a good brainstorm, and that is [[ Spectator, Insider, Dreamer, and Realist ]]. It helps us have a wider perspective so we can come up with more creative, bright ideas that will attract the audience more! In our groups, we brainstormed what we should do, what to change, or what to add in the classroom we will be "remodeling" soon. First, we thought about it from an outsider's point of view, which is the Spectator stage. What if I wasn't a student here at ISS? What would I notice walking in to just classroom if I've never seen the rest of the classrooms? Often times, we miss the most obvious, simple things if we don't look at something from the outsider POV. We came up with good ideas, such as adding more color to the classroom. Afterwards, we looked at the classroom from the Insider's perspective. This means to think of problems in this classroom that can be seen because we are a part of it. For example, because I am an insider at this school (as in students), I know that the wifi connection is definitely not the best in most of our school buildings/classroom. Then, to generate as much redesigning ideas as possible, we became Dreamers. We were able to let our inner creativeness out! For this, we asked ourselves what we'd want installed in N107 if we had unlimited materials, time, money, and could do anything. Once we were able to get a lot of new unique ideas, we went back to being Realists. During this brainstorming section, we had to consider cost, time, and it's realisticness. Which of these ideas are possible to make or incorporate in our project? In this discussion, we all had different roles. The leader's job was to make sure everyone got chances to talk, and to make sure everybody was participating. The time keeper decided how much time we should spend on each of the brainstorming stages, and kept the time, hence the name haha. The note taker made a new google document, shared it with everybody, and typed up all the ideas that were listed/mentioned during the conversation.