Too Many Thinking tools

Hi .. I have pretty much read every De Bono Book .. (except maybe 2 or 3 ) .. not just once but many a times .. One of my Favorites is Serious Creativity as i found its very detailed and the tools explained are also in great detail.. But i have never got time to look at the CoRT & DATT tools .. How different it is from the Lateral thinking tools like .. Focus ,Alternatives, Challenge, Provocation & Movement, etc .. or are they not different ? what are CoRT, DATT Uses .. do they have specific uses or its another thinking tool ? Anything on this will be appreciated .. thanks

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Permalink Reply by Franis on September 14, 2011 at 15:33

There's a site selling CoRT tools, tended by a member here. Although the site is attempting to sell CoRT lesson plans to parents and teachers, taking a look at the outline of the site teaches you quite a bit about CoRT. http://www.cortthinking.com It's pretty fun. The actual lesson plans give examples and experiences of how to teach the content that is outlined on the site. I haven't seen this particular course, but I did have a chance to study a full CoRT course many decades ago.

From what I understand, CoRT tools are very simliar to DATT tools. Only the examples in the DATT tools are designed for grownups. I'm not really sure if that's true, because I've only seen the CoRT booklets.

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Permalink Reply by Kim Jones on September 16, 2011 at 12:00

Correct. DATT has been renamed as PoP (Power of Perception).

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Permalink Reply by Rakesh on September 17, 2011 at 3:04

Hey Franis .. SInce you mentioned you attended a CoRT course .. how was it ? I mean , I planned to attend one of the eDB public seminars .. and i was wondering if you have any opinion around it ..

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Permalink Reply by Franis on September 17, 2011 at 16:59

I didn't attend classes in a seminar form. Someone who figured out I was interested in de Bono at a party mentioned he had the CoRT lessons for kids. So I got to take a look at them, the guy being trusting enough to loan the materials to me. Two months was almost enough time to complete all the exercises. This was in the 1990s - I'm sure the courses have be redesigned to be more relevant.

Previously to that there was this correspondence thinking course offer by de Bono, thorough Oxford that I had purchased. I completed about half of the course, and then the teacher got into a rather bad car accident and could not work for some months. So I never completed and got graded. Although later I did the rest of the exercises on my own, I did not have as much of a sense of learning anything, because at that time, I wasn't very good at abstracting the use of the tools from the examples in the exercises. Not having the encouragement of a teacher to guide or congratulate me on the results was a definite loss.

None of my other friends were interested in thinking skills at that time, (although by talking it up at parties I did eventually get to see the CoRT work later.) Of course the internet wasn't happening yet, and also computers were just too expensive in that era. Eventually I lost the materials for the course when I loaned it to a grade school teachers who seemed interested.

My idea of doing a correspondence course instead of a seminar was that it was content-rich. (And also cheaper, which was a big consideration for me.) There are usually only a few points that can be presented in the time that is available for a seminar; also everyone else needs time to absorb the material. My interest level for content is usually overwhelming for most people, so I went for a way to learn at my own pace.

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Permalink Reply by Rakesh on September 18, 2011 at 1:47

@Franis ... Well it is expensive for sure .. I still have to decide whether i should attend the seminar .. thanks for opinion .. :-)