Activity 7: Thinking Tools

Introduction

In this week's class, we discussed about thinking tools. What are thinking tools?

Thinking tools arethose tools that help us in finding new ways to look at products or objects.

Main Activity

In the main activity, we had two thinking tools to work with;

• Slice and Dice

• SCAMPER

Slice and dice: Slice and dice is a tool that divides the attributes of an object into different parts such as descriptive, Functional, emotional, process, and social.

SCAMPER: Scamper is a tool in which we take an everyday item and manipulate it to have different functions, different properties, or other uses for that item. It is an acronym for Substitute, Combine, Adapt, manipulate, put to other use, eliminate and reverse.

Reflection

• Thinking tools help us understand the items we're working with a whole lot better. They help us look at the item in a different light than before. Thinking tools like Slice and dice help us dissect the properties and attributes of an item, while tools like SCAMPER help us in creating new uses or making new products out of the given item by manipulating it.

• I really liked Reetika's work for the SCAMPER. It was really easy to understand the points she was making. I also loved the layout of the scamper, it was very neat, and the illustrations were really good as well.

Mantra for the day

Don't just think of A possibility Think of Every possibility