De+Bonos+Thinking+Hats



What do we do next
 * Six Thinking Hats - Summary (primary)****Black HatMinuses & caution**What are the minuses about this?What are the weaknesses?What is wrong with this?
 * White HatInformation & facts**What information do we have?What information do we need?
 * Yellow HatGood points & pluses**What are the good things about this?What are the strengths and pluses?How will it help us?Why will it work?
 * Green HatCreativity & ideas**What is possible?What ideas do you have?
 * Red Hat Feelings & hunches**Feelings and hunches.How do I feel about this right now?
 * Blue Hat Organisation of thinking**What is our Focus?What thinking is needed?What have we done so far?

Planning to use The Six Hats? (Based on ideas presented in Edward de Bono’s **//Teach Your Child How to Think//**, Viking, 1992**//)//** **// Theme/ Context: //****// _______________________________________ //**

**//Hat //** || **//Explanation //** || **//De Bono says to think of… //** || **//Key Questions //** || **//Activity Ideas //** || White Hat || · focuses directly on the available information · facts · neutral information · NOT argument or making suggestions || Blank paper Computer printout || 1. What information do we have?  <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">2. What information is missing? <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">3. How do we get the information we need? || <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> || <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Red hat || · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">emotions · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">feeling · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">hunches · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">intuition · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">likes and dislikes || <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Fire and warmth || <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">1. What do you like about the idea? <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">2. How do you feel about this? <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">3. What don’t you like about this? || <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> || <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Black Hat || · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">most used of all the hats · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">concerned with truth and reality · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">hat of critical thinking · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">prevents us from making mistakes || <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Stern judge || <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">1. Will it work? <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">2. Does it fit? <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">3. What are the dangers and the problems? || <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> || <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Yellow Hat || · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">benefits of an idea · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">yellow hat is full of hope- · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">logical hat so the reason behind the hope must be given · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">seeks to find and show the benefits || <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Sunshine and optimism || <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">1. What are the benefits? <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">2. Why should it work? || <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> || <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Green Hat || · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">‘active’ hat · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">used for creative thinking · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">concerned with proposals, suggestions, new ideas, new alternatives, new solutions and inventions · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">emphasis is on ‘newness’ || <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Grass, trees, vegetation and growth || <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Key questions should focus on: <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">1. Exploration of the ideas <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">2. Proposals and suggestions <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">3. Alternatives <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">4. New ideas <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">5. Provocations || <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> || <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Blue Hat || · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">overview · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">the process control · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">above the thinking’ looking down on the thinking <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">thinking about thinking! || <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Blue Sky (above everything) <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Conductor of an orchestra || <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Where are we now? <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">What is the next step? <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Where have we been? <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">What sort of thinking is needed? <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> || <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> || <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Additional Ideas and Activities: <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> ||