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Brain Dump

Brain dump

Purpose:

Generating and Sharing Ideas

Overview:

This process is to support learners in generating ideas quickly. Procedure

Procedure:

  1. Provide learners with a prompt for the quick write (brain dump). 
  2. Learner write ideas on sticky notes (one idea per sticky note). 
  3. Once ideas are “dumped”, they can then be categorized, analyzed, or sorted. 

Materials:

Sticky notes

Source:

https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/retrieval-practice/#:~:text=Brain%20Dumps,the%20end%20of%20a%20unit

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