de Bono's Six Thinking Hats Mobile Wiki

Using Edward de Bono's six thinking hats, this weeks activity promoted collaborative work via a wiki. The topic explored was 'mobile phones and there use in the classroom'. A wiki was set up and broken into each of de Bono's six thinking hats. We were required to put on your desired coloured hat and express your thoughts, ideas and opinions accordingly.

This was a great on-line collaborative activity which prompted lots of thoughts and ideas. Everyone got to access the wiki at a suitable time, read other peoples thoughts and then express their own. Using de Bono's six thinking hats in this exercise was really effective. It promoted that higher order thinking rather than just getting people to write what they thought about the use of mobile phones. Each thinking hat made you really think about the topic at hand.

As I am late starter on this assessment activity, I still felt included and was able to complete the required activity. There was no time limit or designated day or time you had to add your thoughts. This is an ideal activity for learners in the 21st century as it caters for different lifestyles.

In my second prac, I was placed in a year 1 classroom. Edward de Bono's six thinking hats were used in a number of lessons. The children were completing a unit on 'Around the World', they received postcards from different locations and explored the different food, clothing, icons, etc in that country. The teacher would often prompt a question for that day based on this location. The teacher would sometime incoportate one of de Bono's six thinking hats to seek higher order thinking. For example they may have been learning about Italy so they children would put on their yellow hat and think about what would be good about living in Italy? or put on their red hat and create a new pizza.This activity was very effective and over time it was obvious the children were using higher order thinking.

I would love to try an exercise similar to the mobile phones wiki and evaluate the effectiveness  in my classroom.

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