Encouraging idea generation is about letting students freely express their ideas. The would come up with lists of ideas to discuss about a certain topic and if every student participates you would have a much broader list of ideas for students to think about. In class we talked about how this could be used in a classroom setting by having students say anything they thought about the topic. The teacher would then write down all of these on an overhead or on the board for everyone to see. The ideas would only be written down without the teacher commenting on them right away. They would not acknowledge which answers were correct and which were not. This would allow students to be confident about their answers and not discourage shy students who are worried about being wrong. With all of these ideas students would be able to look at all right and wrong answers and ideas and allow them to have a broad perspective of the topic. It would also lead to a better discussion with not just a few people participating.
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