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Focus on The Man In The Bowler Hat
You could use his hat to scoop the dirt back into the hole
You could ask him to grab the shovel and fill the hole in himself
You could take his hat off his head, put it in his hand and say "now get down there Mr an…
Ye can na land on Jupiter laddie a cause there be nowt to land on, now
Danny Boy wrote:
Can we design tools to identify when lateral thinking time is "not justified", giving us permission to do lateral thinking, design thinking the rest of the time?
Just about peed myself when I read this. What a great idea.
Now, so…
Danny Boy wrote:
can we make a master list of all the thinking tools, like the areas that appear in deBono's thinking packs?
Another Aussie, Ken Bopp had launched into precisely that project before you signed on. He was compiling a database of…
Avril
you have understood the throwaway aspect of the tool as I used it. In principle one would go on to process the raw idea from the contemplation of the RW with other tools. What I wanted to show, following Danny Boy's call for some RealLife Exa…
Well, actuslly me great grand-daddy Alf Hill was an Aussie - born in Melbourne, but he was a trans-Tasman musician. The Kiwi have claimed him as one of their own because he went around and recorded them singing in their Pa and then went home and com…
I was flying over the Southern Alps of Aotearoa last night in Google Earth. With a great broadband connection, and a 27 inch screen it's as good as being in a helicopter flying over the real thing. But then I'm a bit of a VR freak. Look for shots by…
Thanks, Asa.
The best thing to do now is run out and by Ted's book!
Cost me $24.95 and changed my life.
In 2008, I decided to get out of schoolteaching and into the, ahem, real world for a spell. I used EdB's 2007 publication How To Have Creative Ideas (Vermilion 2007) to bring on new ideas.
Before opening up the book I did a few preliminaries.
Prel…
You need to pay me $5 if you want me to disagree with you. That buys you 5 minutes of disagreement.
Yes. Brilliant. Mate - what software do you use to put together these mindmaps?
Graeme,
there appears to be a problem with that link you have provided. It takes you to a Twitter Archive. Am including a screen grab of it for you to study
Kim
No. By the way, who are "these people who can instinctively rub and massage little boys heads..." ???
Asa,
schools usually pull out Multiple Intelligences of HG (which has all the juice and flavour of reading one's daily horoscope) and plonk it on one page, and then, on the facing page plonk a summary of SHT just for something a wee bit different.…
Discussion group about the Six Hats
Not a disagreement with anyone on the site but a bit of a beef with one who needs no introduction from me.
In his 2008 publication: 5 Minds for the Future (Harvard Business Press 2008) Howard Gardner does his usual thing of putting people into boxe…
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- Dennis Perrin - Kim Jones: a quick biographical sketch. Kim Jones (b. 1956, now age 52) started composing when he was 8 years old and has over 25 years experience as an educator. Following an 8 year apprenticeship to music composition, learning from Edwin Carr (1925-2003) - New Zealand’s leading composer, he attained his Bachelor of Music with 1st Class Honours in composition from Sydney University in 1983, this time under Australian composers Peter Sculthorpe and Eric Gross. He considers himself today to be a “trans-Tasman” musician and is recognised as the sole remaining descendant of Alfred Hill (1875 -1960) “Australia’s Grandfather of Music” to pursue a dual career as a composer and a teacher. One of Kim’s composition students during the 1980s was Nigel Westlake, currently Australia’s most celebrated screen composer. His interest in non-orthodox teaching methods led him to study the work of Edward de Bono, in particular the skills of Lateral Thinking and Creative Thinking which are used by many successful business entrepreneurs and artists. Subsequently he avoided the “tick-box culture” of formal teacher training but was nevertheless head-hunted by several top Sydney Independent private Colleges (The Scots College, Cranbrook School) and pursued a variegated career of private studio tutoring, university lecturing and extensive Independent secondary school teaching (St. Spyridon College, Moriah College,The French School of Sydney). During the 1980s, Kim was involved with in-service training for music teacher graduates and adult continuing education in Music (NSW Conservatorium and Sydney University). During the early 1990s he lived and worked in France, based in the city of Bourges, rehearsing, conducting and performing with community choirs and orchestras, teaching piano, clarinet and solfège at the Conservatorium of Vierzon whilst enjoying a composer residency at the Château de Mongoux which was transformed into a performing arts centre during his stay. On his return to Australia he plunged into the world of computer music, quickly building a reputation as a discerning music technologist with a cutting-edge view of teaching and learning utilising and enhancing the structures available via the Apple Macintosh platform. Creative collaborations ensued leading to his being chosen as music supervisor for several Sydney Opera House multi-media productions by award winning digital artist John Simmons and internationally renowned philosopher Simon Critchley. In 1973 Kim, while still a school student was awarded the Frank Hutchens National Award for composition. Participating in many composer workshops and writing music for any purpose has led to an extraordinary versatility in designing music for live instruments and electronics. His understanding of dual-aspect creativity has allowed him to side step conformist artistic and education orthodoxy and to successfully impart the important higher-order thinking skills through teaching a range of educational subjects including French language, Australian Mandatory History and Thinking Skills.
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Why The King Must Be Respected
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Posted on July 8, 2010 at 1:10pm — 42 Comments
The Gods
Who would want to be a celebrity?
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Aren't celebrities the reincarnation of the ancient Gods - those who live the high life, are much admired and emulated by everybody, then crash and burn for some godknows reason?
Why do the gods so often crash and burn?
Think:
Wotan and Walhalla
Tiger Woods
Shane Warne
Posted on July 8, 2010 at 6:32am — 6 Comments
2040: We'll Be There Before Anyone Ever Sees It
2040: Possibilities by Edward de Bono
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This movie exists. It is a reality.
Who has seen it
Why is it not 'out there' like other movies
Is anyone interested to see this movie as I am
Does anyone recall we mentioned this a long time ago
Wasn't someone going to do somet
Posted on May 4, 2010 at 7:38am — 10 Comments
Great Joke
Question:
why does the dog lick its balls?
Answer:
because it can.
I have found that a great many things in life can be explained by reminding yourself of this inexorable logic.
Can you think of a situation or two where it might apply?
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why does the dog lick its balls?
Answer:
because it can.
I have found that a great many things in life can be explained by reminding yourself of this inexorable logic.
Can you think of a situation or two where it might apply?
The concept at work for me is that if nothing explicitly prevents something from happening then that thing will most likely occur
Posted on April 6, 2010 at 9:00am — 9 Comments
The Love of Two Cockroaches
This is a new departure for the Boss. It's a kid's book for mature kids, as he describes it. It's also quite an expensive publication and can only be bought off a bookshelf in Malta, where the Boss comes from.
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You can order it though through Amazon UK (only) and get it delivered to your door.
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Posted on March 25, 2010 at 10:34am — 16 Comments
Comment Wall (21 comments)
- At 1:39pm on August 21, 2010,
Danny Stevens said… - G'day Kim. Voted for neither of the big 2. Long standing Green me. Cheers.
- At 12:02am on July 19, 2010,
BERGMANN.INA said… - DER.LETZTE.VERSUCH.DER.ANTWORTSENDUNG.,FRAGE.
1.,EINS.,MIT.
CHARACTERS.
*1217.
WISSEN.SIE.,HABEN.SIE.
1.,EINE.LEISE.AHNUNG.,WIEHOCH.DIESER.ZEITFAKTOR.WAR.?
- At 11:50pm on July 18, 2010,
BERGMANN.INA said…
- DEAR.MR.JONES.!
NACH.BEANTWORTUNG.IHRER.
3.,DREI.FRAGEN.,CHARACTERS.:
*3o32.,
WURDE.ERSICHTLICH.,DASZ. CHARACTERS.
*2ooo.
MAXIMAL.SENDEFAEHIG.WAEREN.,WORAUFHIN.ICH.DIE.ANTWORTEN.
1.EINS.UND.
2.ZWEI.STEHEN.LIESZ.,MIT. CHARACTERS.
*1811.
DER.SENDEBEFEHL.REDUZIERTE.PLOETZLICH.AUF.
CHARACTERS.
*18o9.
NACH.ERNEUTEM.SENDEBEFEHL.
WAR.DER.GANZE.TEXT.VERSCHWUNDEN.
DIESE.NING.SOFTWARE.IST.FUER.
MEINE.BEGRIFFE.RECHT.UNZUREICHEND.,GELINDE.GESPROCHEN.!
DENNOCH.LIEBEN.GRUSZ.
Y'INA.
- At 12:40am on June 4, 2010,
Roger Laird said… - Hi Kim
I already share my wife with almost 1200 members on this site not to mention any other social sites that she is on. How are things in Sydney?
It's 23 years since I was last in your home town. Very fond memories of my year in Australia, particularly travelling along he east coast, stopping off on most of the islands as I went. I hope to get back there one day especially to the Great Barrier Reef with the kids to do some scuba diving.
The economy here is still in the manure business and I believe it will be five years before we will be able to breath again and ten years before we return to a time that makes sense again.
Look forward to talking again soon
Roger
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- At 11:57am on April 15, 2010,
Franis said… - Impertinence: not limited to or restrained within its due or proper boundaries. Rude, insolent, saucy, irrelevant. Sounds to me like that amoeba picture fits that about you pretty well. Yes, and this new picture looks quite questionable as well, with you looking over your glasses at us as if you don't really believe what we're telling you.
A rose! You gave me a gold-dipped ROSE? What a sweetie you are!
Well, I've also been skipping lots of people who deserve a greeting that we've got backlogged.
- At 2:16am on April 11, 2010,
Kim Jones said…
- OK - the nucleus of the amoeba is its "spot of imperinence"
- At 5:00pm on April 10, 2010,
Franis said…
- "A spot of impertinence."
Fitting that should be your new motto, given your icon now.
- At 8:30am on April 6, 2010,
Franis said…
- Hi Kim - well, the cockroach displayed that he's also an ape named Tarzan too. Didn't know de Bono training extended to the animal kingdom. Guess I can't call that bestiality, can I?
Can't wait to see what you choose to do your concept extraction on. Am waiting with baited breath for the next time you're posting on Mr. Artur Cockroach's blog.
- At 12:20am on March 28, 2010,
Franis said…
- Yeah, where else but here would someone who gets to gloat about the effectiveness of complaining would afterwards become a "featured participant"! That was a surprise... Anywhere else that would have a person branded as a "trouble-maker" to be eliminated.
- At 12:17am on March 28, 2010,
Franis said…
- Yeah, Graeme took his toys and went home to Kaunas, even after he promised me otherwise. I'll have to ask him personally,since we had an agreement together about that. Hope something didn't happen to his young one. Probably the missus demanded he quit messing about on websites and get down to the duty of taking care of the next generation with her. Maybe he was only here because he was hoping to be assigned the job of administration, and when Linda took up the reins again, no use being here?
It's a proven point that bribing people works much worse than inspiring them. Being generous with one's time (especially in hopes of transcendent goals, such as saving the world with thinking skills and beyond) sets an inspiring example. People then imagine that it's OK that you ask a lot, as you have offered so much.
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