Thursday, April 12, 2012

Learning Journey with De Bono's Hats

This is the sort of learning journey I have been through with Mobile Phone de Bono’s Hats Wiki.
a) Firstly the vertical way, from bottom to the top, step by step, reflecting Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy Learning Mode, for me is an introverted journey of participating in this activity, which only forms a small section of a bigger vertical learning journey of my understanding of de Bono’s Hats and Learning - starting from the basic declarative knowledge acquiring - to define what  De Bono’s Hats are and remembering the function of each hat, to the second step of Understanding, to comprehend what opinions should each hat represent, to Applying the de Bono’s Hats into a debate by demonstrating our thoughts in different hats.  The Analyzing stage was then completed by distinguishing the function and depth of different hats; my conclusions were that a learning journey can be well guided through using de Bono’s Hats.  Finally I would utilise de Bono’s Hats in my own teaching career, using it creatively to teach students to think differently on a subject and eventually to reach a deeper thinking about a certain issue.
b) Secondly, on a horizontal level, is my experience of collaborative learning supported by Wikispace.  The unique design of Wikispace allows its certain users to be able to contribute to the same page about the same topic, for example the mobile phone issue.  Ideas were poured into the same page, dressed with links, photos, videos; conversations were going on back and forth among students who live in different regions and access the websites at different times.  The contents were then edited, trimmed and re-arranged by different people; and as a backup function, history is allowed to be retrieved should we have dispute about an edited version.

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