the Whiteboard: Inventions / Six Hats

What is this invention?

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What is the benefit of it?

Does it have any drawbacks?

What is this invention?

What is the benefit of it?

Does it have any drawbacks?

What is this invention?

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What is the benefit of it?

Does it have any drawbacks?

What is this invention?

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What is the benefit of it?

Does it have any drawbacks?

What is this invention?

What is the benefit of it?

Does it have any drawbacks?

What is the benefit of it?

Does it have any drawbacks?

Read the heading - what do you think the story will be about?

MUA

A Chinese start-up has invented a long-distance kissing machine that transmits users’ kiss data collected through motion sensors hidden in silicon lips, which simultaneously move when replaying kisses received.

MUA – named after the sound people commonly make when blowing a kiss – also captures and replays sound and warms up slightly during kissing, making the experience more authentic, said Beijing-based Siweifushe.

Discuss: What is your gut reaction to this idea? Red Question

Write down some of these feelings…

Read this paragraph

The invention was inspired by lockdown isolation. At their most severe, China’s lockdowns saw authorities forbid residents to leave their apartments for months on end. “I was in a relationship back then, but I couldn’t meet my girlfriend due to lockdowns,” said inventor Zhao Jianbo.

Does this information make you see the idea more positively? (Yellow and White question)

Write down some positive ways of thinking about this product

A remote kissing device called “Long Lost Touch” is displayed on the table at its owner Jing Zhiyuan’s home, in Beijing, China.

The device is available in several colours with the same unisex lips. It has received mixed reviews, with some users saying it was intriguing whereas others said it made them feel uncomfortable. Among the top complaints was its lack of tongue.

What other criticisms can you imagine being made about this concept? (Black question)

Write down some of your criticisms

Discussion

1. Is this a useful method of thinking possibilities through in various projects?

2. Why do you think de Bono invented the method?

3. Do you think it's necessary to use all the hats every time?

4. Do some hats feel more inherently useful than others, or should we give each hat equal importance?

Lost in depthless green

Look at the photograph

What is going on in the photograph?

painstakingly Plus, sometimes it their best performance

in front of nightmare shows up as

For years, green screens have dominated big-budget movie production.

Actors run about 1_______ bright green backdrops, emoting with anonymous figures in bright green bodysuits. Then later, months after this filming stage has been completed, an army of computer-generated imagery (CGI) artists 2_________ create a fantastical world pixel-by-pixel.

The end results can be amazing, but the process is a 3_________. The lack of visual information means actors struggle to give 4_______, while cinematographers sometimes choose the wrong kind of lighting.

"All the actors see is green," says Noah Kander, who wrote the Virtual Production Field Guide for Epic Games book.

"The camera people don't necessarily love it because they're lighting to something that isn't complete."

5______ those green walls create their own problems. Green-tinged light 6_______ green reflections or "spill" on uniforms and props, which have to be removed in post-production.

"I don't know anybody who loves working on green screen because it's a compromise," Noah says.

"Sometimes it looks good and 7_______ looks silly."

Great Gatsby Green Screen

Here's one solution

Virtual production studios

Watch the tech video to get a sense of how it works....

What are some pros and cons of this technology?

Also:

18th or 19th Century?

Medieval help desk

Discuss

Is it enough to think in terms of benefits and drawbacks when trying understand the impacts of inventions?

Do we miss something when we talk only in terms of what is good and bad about something?

De Bono's 6 Thinking Hats are a famous alternative to the traditional "adversarial approach" (I am right - you are wrong) to decision making. Rather than taking on competing perspectives, de Bono encourages us to adopt and shift fluidly between multiple perspectives.

That hats stand for different ways of thinking. No hat has the answers, only a perspective. By consciously and freely adopting a particular perspective or mindset, without preconceptions, we can achieve greater freedom from prejudice, from our strong 'feelings', and greater flexibility of mind.

White: neutral, objective.
Red: emotional, passionate.
Black: serious, somber.
Yellow: sunny, positive.
Green: growth, fertility.
Blue: cool, sky above.

Intuitively put the hats is the order to show your typical preferences. How do you most / least like to think?

Watch:

Six Hats

What colour hat… Manages the other thinking hats, time, the flow of ideas?

What colour hat… Worries about facts and figures? Reminds us of the difference between a checked fact and unchecked fact (belief)? Asks us to take the mindset of a computer?

What colour hat… Wants to think about opportunities we should expand upon?
Is open to risk?

What colour hat… Asks “what are the failure scenarios?”

What colour hat… Opposes the black hat. Takes more effort than black hat.

What colour hat… Says “What is your initial reaction?
“What is your gut feeling?”

Look at the questions: which "hat" do they belong to?

1. What is our focus? _______
2. What information do we have? _______
3. What's the best thing that could happen? _______
4. How are we feeling about this? _______
5. What ideas do you have? _______
6. What's your gut instinct? _______
7. Which hat shall we use? _______
8. Can anybody think of a weakness to this idea? _______
9. How will this help us? _______
10. How could this go wrong? _______
11. Can we imagine some interesting applications of this? _______
12. Is there anything we need to know first? _______
13. Can we add any data to this? _______
14. What is the current economic situation? _______
15. What are the risks? _______
16. What have we covered so far? _______
17. Are there any suggestions we can now discard? _______

Task:

Plan a school trip together – you have ten minutes.

Present to rest of class. Us the six hats method.

Read the following paragraphs:

MUA – named after the sound people commonly make when blowing a kiss – also captures and replays sound and warms up slightly during kissing, making the experience more authentic, said Beijing-based Siweifushe.

What is your gut reaction to this idea? (Red Question)

Read this paragraph

Does this information make you see the idea more positively? (Yellow and White question)

A remote kissing device called “Long Lost Touch” is displayed on the table at its owner Jing Zhiyuan’s home, in Beijing, China.

The device is available in several colours with the same unisex lips. It has received mixed reviews, with some users saying it was intriguing whereas others said it made them feel uncomfortable. Among the top complaints was its lack of tongue.

What other criticisms can you imagine being made about this concept? (Black question)

Discussion

1. Is this a useful method of thinking possibilities through in various projects?

2. Why do you think de Bono invented the method?

3. Do you think it's necessary to use all the hats every time?

4. Do some hats feel more inherently useful than others, or should we give each hat equal importance?

Practice - role play

Create a "board" of students to interview a product developer.

Assume this is the first time you have ever heard of this product (perhaps it's another period of history). Now shoot questions at the product developer using different hats.

The product developer needs to be as agile as possible in answering questions.

First try the green or yellow hats

Ask the developer about creative or positive aspects of their product.