Unit 2: Creativity and Language Learning

Video Lesson 2

Part A: The Six Thinking Hats

Group Work

Work in groups. Review the information you remember about the Six Thinking Hats technique from the article, How to become a creative problem solver.

Part B: Watch the Video

Watch

Now, watch the video What Is Six Thinking Hats? and answer the 5 questions below.

Each question has a sample answer that will be revealed when you click/tap on the Check button and then Show Solution.

Part C: Matching

Matching

Part D: Watch the Video

Watch

Watch a conversation among the four international students.

Part E: Fill in the Blanks

Activity

Watch the video again and complete the table using the information from the video.

Please note that the table below is not interactive and serves as a preview version of the downloadable template available as an MS Word document that you can use to complete this activity.

Colour of Hat

 Aim Means of achieving the aim
White Hat Facts/ What does the presentation need us to do?
  • (1) ____________ and research information.
  • Make a presentation outline.
  • Brainstorm presentation topics.
Red Hat Emotion
  • (2) ____________ to make it more relatable for other students.
  • Make it interesting without (3) ____________ to watch.
  • Images and videos
  • Good amount of (4) ____________
  • Controlled usage of (5) ____________
  • Experiences and observations make the presentation more interesting
  • Physical symptoms of stress in the body.
  • Increased heart rate and blood vessels tightening as well as increased inflammation in the body. Not all types of anxiety are so
    (8) ____________
Yellow Hat (6) ____________
  • What could get the students excited?
  • How much of what parents do influence one’s views of (7) ____________ . With girls a cuddle is fine, but boys need to be tougher
Green Hat What tools to use to ensure the presentation goes well.
  • Use visuals / graphics
  • Google slides or (9) ____________
  • Show a video
  • A polling or quizzing game (e.g., Kahoot can be a fun class challenge)
  • Create a (10) ____________ to use in the slides.
  • Mini animation
Blue Hat Planning/ What can go wrong?
  • People freeze or stumble over their words.
  • Presentation Slides don’t work
  • The presentation is hard to (11) ____________ or goes too quickly
  • Topic statement + background information.
  • To sum up the presentation goal
  • (12) ____________ will help structure the overall presentation
  • Key themes, explanations, and examples for the body of the presentation
  • (13) ____________ who does what so one person does not do all of the talking
  • Videos + polling and quizzing
Black Hat (14) ____________ bring everything together.
  • Lots of great ideas to choose from
  • Take a look at the ideas and make an action plan

Possible Matches:

review the textbookcombine personal storiesbeing boringslideshumourthe benefitsmasculinity and femininitydestructivePowerPointmind mapfollowmain themesmap outconvergent thinking

Part F: Critical Thinking

Critical Thinking

Part G: Divergent and Convergent Thinking

The 6 Hats for Idea Generation

  1. Choose a problem from Part F above and engage in divergent thinking to produce as many ideas as you can using different color hats.
  2. Now use convergent thinking approaches to rate them based on their effectiveness.
an illustration of the 6 hats

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