Six Hat Thinking

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Six Hat Thinking

• Damian Groark
• CEO Challenging Learning
• damian_at_challenginglearning.com

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Problems

• Emotions
• Helplessness
• Confusion

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ProblemsProblemsProblems

• How do we think?
• How do we solve them?

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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 cant 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.

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Who shall I invite to the party?
Where should we holiday?
Should we move house?
What should I wear?
Should we marry?
Where do we park?
Should I go for promotion?
What colour tiles in the bathroom?
Should we change the car?
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Turn to a partner

• Identify a real life problem in your life that
  you are having.

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Should we get a dog?
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We did!!!!!
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Lets play a game!

• The rules are dead simple
• When you see the colour, shout out the word
  written on the slide.

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Wow!
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Think!
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Yes!
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No!
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New!
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Facts!
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New!
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No!
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Yes!
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Facts!
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Think!
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Wow!
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New!
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Wow!
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Facts!
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No!
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Yes!
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Think!
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Does this presentation seem chaotic?Is this
disconnected and hard to follow?Have you come
here to gain meaning and yet you are being lead
merely into confusion?
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I agree!!!!!!
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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

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Using the Six hats to solve the problem of facial
adhesion.
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De Bono Talks about Six Hat Thinking
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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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The Green hat

• What Ideas do we have?
• Lets look at things from a different/zany angle.
• Lets get creative.
• Be alternative
• Generate ideas
• Green shoots of creativity. You cant assess an
  idea until you have one.

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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.

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6 Hat Thinking Task

• The Government have decided that from September
  the 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.

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Red hat to find out what we feel about this idea.
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White to consider what information and facts we
already have or will need to know.
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Yellow hat to think about the good points and
give reasons.
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Black hat to point out some of the problems we
might need to think about and why.
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Green hat to see if we can think of some really
wacky ideas!
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Blue to think about all the thinking and decide
on the next steps.
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Red hat to reflect on how we feel about our
decision.
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METACOGNITION
Thinking about the thinking
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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.
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Red hat to find out what we feel about this idea.
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White to consider what information and facts we
already have or will need to know.
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Yellow hat to think about the good points and
give reasons.
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Black hat to point out some of the problems we
might need to think about and why.
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Green hat to see if we can think of some really
wacky ideas!
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Blue to think about all the thinking and decide
on the next steps.
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BLUE HAT

• Which hat were you wearing when you had most to
  say?
• What happens if someone mostly wears
• Yellow?
• Green?
• Red?
• Black?

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Six Hat Thinking

• Damian Groark
• CEO Challenging Learning
• damian_at_challenginglearning.com