Regardless of this following statement, Week 2 consisted of teamwork navigational skills through Wikispaces again to Mobile phone's wiki, our topic for this week.
Using the De Bono's scaffolding tool, we were to select a hat and accordingly change our pesperctives and collect data with our specific thinking hat. There are six different thinking hats (as shown below) which collaboratively and formatively work together to create ideas and collect data from a certain topic.
Throughout the class, each pair had a different thinking hat and were to write their information in the certain box given to the specific hat. This did work effectively, however the idea of the task being so succesful diminished immediately after some groups had "saved" their information onto their computer at the same time, erasing the current information that was displaying on the wikispace. Fortunately to overcome this situation, the entire classroom was asked to save their typed information in their given box AT DIFFERENT TIMES and follow up if the work was put onto the wikispace correctly.
One thing that was learnt within this wikispace experience was the learning manager needs to keep in note, students should not save their information at the same and to back their information into a Microsoft Word document in case of deletion. However this tool is effective as a result of showing class discussion and allowing the student's to read through the information from the entire class instead of groups verbally speaking their information to all students, making the lesson more time consuming than expected. It allows the student to independently source through online information and navigationally choose the important imformation off of a particular site with or without the guidance of a learning manager.
Edward De Bono, the creater of the De Bono's six thinking hats were created in the early 1980's as a method framework. It was designed to be a process of developing complex thinking within a group of people. Each hat contributes to a different thinking order.
This framework was designed for the simple purpose of creative collaborative thinking. Although it has it's perks by allowing this form of scaffolding, it misses the important factor of individually working through data without the hassle of having to cater for all thinking hats.
Perhaps this is why I would preferably go for the PMI scaffolding technique. It results and allows the idea of collaborative and individual work without the hassle of writing loads of information about the one certain topic.
The Thinking hats would be a perfect scaffolding technique to use for a classroom activity or discussion, but to individually work on a task, The PMI scaffolding technique would be a preferable choice.
References:
Screenshot of "Wikispaces" page derived from:
http://fahe11001mackay.wikispaces.com/Mobile+Phones+Wiki
De Bono's Thinking hats picture:
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Background information of Edward De Bono derived from:
http://www.kurwongbss.eq.edu.au/thinking/Hats/hats.htm
De Bono's Thinking hats information picture:
http://www.kurwongbss.eq.edu.au/thinking/Hats/hats.htm
(Placed in Hat's for Parent which opens up to a word document. This picture was taken via screen shot)
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