schoolsucks podcast 239 live inferential distance parallel thinking and 9 11

The second year of what I’m hoping will become an iconoclastic tradition: thinking on 9/11 in America. This show has three parts 1. What is inferential distance and what communication problems does it cause? 2. An explanation and examination of Edward de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats (a tools process of parallel thinking) 3. A 9/11 “truther” vs. 9/11 true believer role-play using what we’ve learned Edward de Bono Presentation: Six Thinking Hats (Video) GOAL: Rearranging things in our minds so we can think more simply and more effectively, using existing brain ability ANALOGY: relationship between intelligence (potential) and thinking (skill) is like the relationship between a car and the driver car’s engine, transmission, etc… (potential) but performance depends upon he (skill) of the driver Past “attempts” at teaching better thinking: (school) -subject focus, immersion -discussion -mistake avoidance -repetition (the practice of thinking doesn’t make you a better thinker, two-finger typing example) de Bono encourages A Tools Process of thinking: -create some frameworks that are practiced in different situations -the practice embeds skills in the tools -take the tool and apply elsewhere, the tool is portable ORIGINS OF ARGUMENT: lacking in constructive and creative energy, but good for discovering truth -Socrates: mainly concerned in showing why things were wrong, and then we’ll be left with what is right, but rarely had a constructive outcome -Plato: influenced by pythagoras, very focused on “what is the underlying truth?” -Aristotle: from the past, let’s create categories (boxes); then we’ll analyze things and see […]