ProblemsEmotions
Helplessness
Confusion
ProblemsProblemsProblemsProblemsProblemsProblems
How do we think?How do we think?How do we solve them?How do we solve them?
Full Colour Thinking
After lunch
two children have been fighting and both want you to listen to their point of view
you want the class to solve the problem on the board.
One of the children can’t read the problem and wants help.
Lucy throws up
A child falls of his chair and a dog is loose on the playground.
The secretary comes in to berate you because your dinner numbers are wrong.
Should we
Should we
move house?
move house?
Should I go for Should I go for promotion?promotion?
What colour tiles
What colour tiles
in the bathroom?
in the bathroom? Should we change
Should we change
the car?
the car?
Where should
Where should
we holiday?
we holiday?
Where do we park?Where do we park?
What should I wear?
What should I wear?Should we marry?
Should we marry?
Who shall I inviteWho shall I invite to the party?to the party?
Turn to a partner
Identify a real life problem in your life that you are
having.
Should we get a dog?Should we get a dog?
We did!!!!!We did!!!!!
Let’s play a game!
The rules are dead simple:
When you see the colour, shout out the word written on the slide.
Wow!Wow!
Think!Think!
Yes!Yes!
No!No!
New!New!
Facts!Facts!
New!New!
No!No!
Yes!Yes!
Facts!Facts!
Think!Think!
Wow!Wow!
New!New!
Wow!Wow!
Facts!Facts!
No!No!
Yes!Yes!
Think!Think!
Does this presentation seem Does this presentation seem chaotic?chaotic?
Is this disconnected and hard to Is this disconnected and hard to follow?follow?
Have you come here to gain Have you come here to gain meaning and yet you are being meaning and yet you are being
lead merely into confusion?lead merely into confusion?
I agree!!!!!!
Edward de Bono
• Edward de Bono is regarded by many to be the leading authority in the world in the field of creative thinking and the direct teaching of thinking as a skill.
• “I am one of the very few people in history to have had a major impact on the way we think - rather than on what we think.” (modest)
• Oxford scholar with a background in Medicine and Psychology
Using the Six hats to solve the problem of facial adhesion.
De Bono Talks about Six Hat Thinking
The Red Hat
“What do I feel about this?”
Emotions blur thinking and clarity
Feelings, we bring prejudices, aethetics and anxiety to problems
Hunches, we have gut reactions to things
These need to be acknowledged when solving problems if we dont do this we try to disguise our feelings as LOGIC.
The Yellow Hat
“What are the good points here?”
What are the benefits?
Good Points
Benefits
Reasons that the idea will work
Likelihood
This is the sunshine hat looking for the positives
The Black Hat
What is wrong with this?
Checking for evidence
Checking for logic/feasibility
Checking for impact
Checking for fit
Checking for weakness
The Hat is there to help us making mistakes. it is there to point out dangers or difficulties.
There is a world of difference between looking at an idea to attack it and looking at an idea to improve it.
The White Hat
What information do we have?
What information do we need?
How do we get the information that we need?
gather data, seek information, use and select the information that you have in order to inform the problem solving process.
The Green hat
What Ideas do we have?
Let’s look at things from a different/zany angle.
Lets get creative.
Be alternative
Generate ideas
Green shoots of creativity. You can’t assess an idea until you have one.
The Blue Hat
What thinking has been done?
What is the next step?
What thinking is needed
Metacognition
Reviewing and summarising the thinking
Finding the next steps
Unlike the other hats, which are states of mind, this is a way of guiding the process to empower greater thinking.
Red hat to find out what we feel about this idea.
White to consider what information and facts we already
have or will need to know.
Yellow hat to think about the good points and give reasons.
Black hat to point out some of the problems we might need to
think about and why.
Green hat to see if we can think of some really wacky ideas!
Blue to think about all the thinking and
decide on the next steps.
Red hat to reflect on how we feel about our decision.
Thinking about the thinking
METACOGNITION
Mr Groark the head teacher has decided that from September 2010 St Benets school day will start at 10.30am rather than 9.00am.
We will use the 6 Hats to think carefully about this idea and decide whether it is a good idea or not.
Red hat to find out what we feel about this idea.
White to consider what information and facts we already
have or will need to know.
Yellow hat to think about the good points and give reasons.
Black hat to point out some of the problems we might need to
think about and why.
Green hat to see if we can think of some really wacky ideas!
Blue to think about all the thinking and
decide on the next steps.
BLUE HAT
Which hat were you wearing when you had most to say?
What happens if someone mostly wears:Yellow?Green?Red?Black?