Six Thinking Hats

De Bono, Edward: Six Thinking Hats.
Toronto,
Ontario:MICA Management Resources, 1985. ISBN 0-
316-17831-4.
How to use Edward de Bono’s

parallel thinking in problem solving
Gary Dichtenber, Paul Reali, CyberSkills, Inc.
SIX THINKING HATS

IS A PROBLEM SOLVING AND LEARNING METHOD, WHERE WE USE DIFFERENT KIND
OF THINKING PARADIGM AT THE SAME TIME. STUDENTS´ TAKES A DIFFERENT ROLE
IN THE GROUP BY USING DIFFERENT COLOUR THINKING HATS.
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AIMS
• Develops students´cooperation and communication

skills
• Supports collaborative knowledge building
• Develops students´problem solving skills
• Develops students´ thinking and reflection skills
• Supports students´ ability to analyze information
and to ask good questions

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Tuija Rautio/Teacher Education College
SIX THINKING HATS AS A METHOD
• Teacher gives students a problem, topic etc. to solve
by using six thinking hats.
• Students make hats for example about six different
colours of paper.
• Students work in smaller groups (6 members in
each group) and think about the problem from their
colours perspective. They can change hats while
working if needed. Anyway, they have to take care,
that they are using their own hats perspective.

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…AND SIX HATS
White: objective facts & figures (neutral)
Red: emotions & feelings (angry)
Black: cautious & careful (serious)
Yellow: hope, positive & speculative (sunny)
Green: creativity, ideas & lateral thinking (fertility)
Blue: control & organization of thinking (cool)

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THE BLUE HAT
• Thinking about thinking

• Instructions for thinking
• The organization of thinking
• Control of the other hats
• Discipline and focus

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THE BLUE HAT ROLE
• Control of thinking & the process
• Begin & end session with blue hat
• Facilitator, session leader’s role
• Choreography
– open, sequence, close
– Focus: what should we be thinking about
– Asking the right questions
– Defining & clarifying the problem
– Setting the thinking tasks

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OPEN WITH THE BLUE HAT…
• Why we are here
• what we are thinking about
• definition of the situation or problem
• alternative definitions
• what we want to achieve
• where we want to end up
• the background to the thinking
• a plan for the sequence of hats

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…AND CLOSE WITH THE BLUE HAT
• What we have achieved

• Outcome
• Conclusion
• Design
• Solution
• Next steps

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WHITE HAT THINKING
• Neutral, objective information
• Facts & figures
• Questions: what do we know, what don’t we know,
what do we need to know
• Excludes opinions, hunches, judgements
• Removes feelings & impressions
• Two tiers of facts
– Believed Facts
– Checked Facts

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RED HAT THINKING
• Emotions & feelings

• Hunches, intuitions, impressions
• Doesn’t have to be logical or consistent
• No justifications, reasons or basis
• All decisions are emotional in the end

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GREEN HAT THINKING
• New ideas, concepts, perceptions

• Deliberate creation of new ideas
• Alternatives and more alternatives
• New approaches to problems
• Creative & lateral thinking

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YELLOW HAT THINKING
• Positive & speculative

• Positive thinking, optimism, opportunity
• Benefits
• Best-case scenarios
• Exploration

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BLACK HAT THINKING
• Cautious and careful
• Logical negative – why it won’t work
• Critical judgement, pessimistic view
• Separates logical negative from emotional
• Focus on errors, evidence, conclusions
• Logical & truthful, but not necessarily fair

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TASK
Your task is to do a poster, where you

• tell about this method in generally
• plan how you can use this method as a tool for
learning in your own study courses
– Which course? Aims of the course?
– What kind of problem or topic they have to solve?
– In which different way you can use thinking hats?
– How much time the process will take?
– How do you assess what the students have learned?
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De Bono, Edward: Six Thinking Hats.

How to use Edward de Bono’s

SIX THINKING HATS

• Develops students´cooperation and communication

For QTTTC Teachers/Six thinking hats/Kaija Hannula and

For QTTTC Teachers/Six thinking hats/Kaija Hannula and

Red: emotions & feelings (angry)

Black: cautious & careful (serious)

Yellow: hope, positive & speculative (sunny)

Green: creativity, ideas & lateral thinking (fertility)

Blue: control & organization of thinking (cool)

• Thinking about thinking

For QTTTC Teachers/Six thinking hats/Kaija Hannula and

For QTTTC Teachers/Six thinking hats/Kaija Hannula and

For QTTTC Teachers/Six thinking hats/Kaija Hannula and

• What we have achieved

For QTTTC Teachers/Six thinking hats/Kaija Hannula and

For QTTTC Teachers/Six thinking hats/Kaija Hannula and

• Emotions & feelings

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• New ideas, concepts, perceptions

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• Positive & speculative

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For QTTTC Teachers/Six thinking hats/Kaija Hannula and

Your task is to do a poster, where you

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