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Transcript of Destination ImagiNation ® © Destination ImagiNation, Inc. 2004 CPS Toolbox Trainer Workshop V2.
Destination ImagiNation®
© Destination ImagiNation, Inc. 2004CPS Toolbox Trainer Workshop V2
What will we be doing at the What will we be doing at the Workshop?Workshop?
Enriching and expanding your familiarity with ten CPS and Critical thinking tools
Discovering ways to use these tools to make decisions either individually or in a group
Practice the tools so that you can teach them to others
© Destination ImagiNation, Inc. 2004CPS Toolbox Trainer Workshop V2
UNDERSTANDINGTHE CHALLENGE
ConstructingOpportunities
FramingProblems
ExploringData
PREPARINGFOR ACTION
DevelopingSolutions
BuildingAcceptance
GENERATINGIDEASGenerating
Ideas
DesigningProcess
PLANNINGYOUR APPROACH
Creative Problem Solving—Version 6.1™
AppraisingTasks
© 2003, Center for Creative Learning, Inc. and Creative Problem Solving Group, Inc.
© Destination ImagiNation, Inc. 2004CPS Toolbox Trainer Workshop V2
Reproduced by permission
Generating Many, Varied, and
Unusual Options
Focusing By Identifying a Promising Direction
or Theme
The “Gem” ofCreative Problem Solving
© 2003, Center for Creative Learning
© Destination ImagiNation, Inc. 2004CPS Toolbox Trainer Workshop V2
Reproduced by permission
Get to know your table team . . .
Introduce yourself to the others at your table
Determine something that everyone at your table has in common
Choose a tool that illustrates this common element
Write your name on your nametag and draw the tool on it, too!
Explain to the group your table team’s selected tool© Destination ImagiNation, Inc. 2004CPS Toolbox Trainer Workshop V2
What’s a “tool?” Makes work easier
Increases effectiveness or efficiency
Adds strength or power
Designed for specific job or function
Has a name!© Destination ImagiNation, Inc. 2004CPS Toolbox Trainer Workshop V2
Creative Thinking
Encountering gaps, paradoxes, opportunities, challenges, or concerns; then searching for meaningful new connections by generating --
• Many possibilities• Varied possibilities • Unusual or original possibilities• Details to expand or enrich possibilities
© Destination ImagiNation, Inc. 2004CPS Toolbox Trainer Workshop V2
Source: Treffinger, Isaksen, & Dorval, 2000. Adapted by permission.
Critical ThinkingExamining possibilities carefully, fairly, and constructively; then focusing your thoughts and actions by—
• Organizing and analyzing possibilities• Refining and developing promising
possibilities • Ranking or prioritizing options• Choosing or deciding on certain options
© Destination ImagiNation, Inc. 2004CPS Toolbox Trainer Workshop V2
Source: Treffinger, Isaksen, & Dorval, 2000. Adapted by permission.
© Destination ImagiNation, Inc. 2004CPS Toolbox Trainer Workshop V2
Reproduced by permission
© Destination ImagiNation, Inc. 2004CPS Toolbox Trainer Workshop V2
Reproduced by permission
What’s a “thinking tool?”
Tools for Generating Brainstorming Attribute Listing Morphological
Matrix Force-Fitting SCAMPER
Tools for Focusing Hits and Hot Spots ALoU Paired
Comparison Analysis
Sequencing: SML Evaluation Matrix
© Destination ImagiNation, Inc. 2004CPS Toolbox Trainer Workshop V2
Situation 1:
A team is faced with a challenge: They need to get the large peg into the stand with the round hole. They need to solve this problem. Does this call for Generating or Focusing?
© Destination ImagiNation, Inc. 2004CPS Toolbox Trainer Workshop V2
© Destination ImagiNation, Inc. 2004CPS Toolbox Trainer Workshop V2
A team is faced with a challenge:
Two team members have written scripts for the Presentation at school. Both scripts are good ones.
Does this call for Generating or Focusing?
Situation 2:
Situation 3:
© Destination ImagiNation, Inc. 2004CPS Toolbox Trainer Workshop V2
A team is faced with a challenge:
One team member found an old box or cage on wheels in his grandmother’s garage. The team would like to use it in their Presentation in some way.
Does this call for Generating or Focusing?
Situation 4:
© Destination ImagiNation, Inc. 2004CPS Toolbox Trainer Workshop V2
A team is faced with a challenge:
The team can’t decide on a theme for their Presentation. They have many ideas but they don’t know which one to choose.
Does this call for Generating or Focusing?
Situation 5:
© Destination ImagiNation, Inc. 2004CPS Toolbox Trainer Workshop V2
A Family is faced with a challenge: They have book a Safari in Africa and need to get it planned.Managing time is very difficult for them. They have an especially hard time meeting deadlines. Nothing is ever completed when they say it will be and they have a definite deadline with the trip.
Does this call for Generating or Focusing?
Destination ImagiNation®
© Destination ImagiNation, Inc. 2004CPS Toolbox Trainer Workshop V2