6 thinking hats (1)
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Benefits Of The Six Thinking Hat
Improve Exploration
Save Time
Helps us be more Creative
It Helps to Think Together
!² A Doctor ² Helps businesses, governments,
and schools ² Wrote 62 books in 40 languages ² Originator of Six Thinking Hats,
Lateral Thinking and Direct Attention Thinking Tools
The Originator: Dr. Edward de Bono
The Basics
v6 different imaginary hats that you can put on or take off.
vEach hat is a different color and represents a different way of thinking.
vWhen we all wear the same hat we do the same type of thinking at the same time.
vWhen we change hats - we change our thinking.
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White (Facts and Informa:on)
BLUE (Thinking
about thinking)
Black (Judgment)
Red (Feelings)
Green (Crea:vity)
Yellow (Benefits)
SIX COLOURS
BLUE HAT THINKING– Process Control- FacilitatorØ Use this hat at the beginning
Ø Ask why are we here?
ØWhat are we thinking about?
ØDecide what the problem is.
ØGive possible explana:ons
ØWhat do we want to do?
ØHow are we going to find out?
WHITE HAT THINKING – Facts, Figures, Information
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ØWho? What? When? Where?
ØWhat do we know?
ØWhat don’t we know?
ØWhat do we need to know?
RED HAT THINKING
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Just put down together No explana:on No need of logic & consistency
Ø Emo:ons and feelings
Ø Hunches
Ø Intui:ons
Ø Impressions
BLACK HAT THINKINGErrors, evidence,
conclusion
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WARNING!
VERY EASY TO OVERUSE
² Most useful Hat² Look at why it might not work² Helps us foresee all the possible obstacles, faults, or problems
YELLOW HAT THINKING
BENEFITS & VALUES
• Most difficult to use
• Benefits
• Values
• How can we make something work?
Not naturalYou need to develop value sensitivity
GREEN HAT THINKING – Creative (Synthesis)
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Ø Looking for new ideas
Ø Alterna:ves ideas
Ø New Possibili:es
BLUE HAT THINKING– Process Control- Facilitator
• Use this hat at the end• What have we achieved?• Outcome• Summaries• Conclusion • Design• Ac:on plan
• Next step
Ac:vity: Which Hat? Direc:ons • Three children are using their thinking hats to talk about having a Ferris Wheel on the school playground.
• Draw a line from each hat to the child who is using that kind of hat.
• Then colour the hats. • Look for the colour word on each hat.