To be better writers and thinkers – students must learn how to generate ideas. This often takes patience and focus.
For this activity, students need to put their phones away, sit, and write. That’s it.
The focus of this activity is ideas.
Ideas, ideas, ideas.
When student are finished, they pass their papers around class, and underline “interesting ideas” they read. Then they leave a quick explanation on why they found that idea interesting.