Thinking+skills

Visible thinking [] has a range of practical ideas and advice for teaching specific thinking skills (Thanks Ieva) Also the Harvard project site [] which explains why thinking skills need to be visible and how to put this into action. For example: Artful thinking [] Edward DeBono has developed a wide range of resources to help with the development of thinking skills in students. The resources and approaches have been developed through **CoRT** (Cognitive Research Trust).
 * __THINKING SKILLS SITE __****__– courtesy of Stephen __**
 * CoRT Thinking Skills (©Edward de Bono)**

Some of the skills developed through the CoRT programme include the following: The following links provide further information about the CoRT resources.
 * PMI - thinking of the pluses, minuses and interesting points of ideas, suggestions, proposals
 * Thinking of the consequences of short, medium, long term actions
 * Prioritizing eg. relevant factors, objectives, consequences
 * Decision making
 * Seeing other points of view
 * Recognising evidence that is weak, strong or key
 * Challenging existing ways of doing things
 * Solving problems by thinking about problem requirements

[] The CoRT Thinking Lessons were first published in 1974 - there must be many millions of people who have benefited. This website is here to consolidate and to move forward using all the modern technology available ...

[] Edward de Bono, cognitive researcher, proponent of lateral thinking and advocate of the teaching of thinking as a skill, has graciously permitted IDEELS to include five thinking lessons from his Cognitive Research Trust Thinking Course on the IDEELS web site.

Edward de Bono has another major strategy which is highly effective in practice. His **'Six Thinking Hats'** encourages students to consider different perspectives of a problem, idea or situation by wearing a different coloured hat - either figuratively or literally. The hats are labelled as follows: The six hats method can be taught directly as part of a thinking skills programme or can be incorporated into curriculum areas. It provides a simple and practical way of showing that thinking is a skill that can be learned practiced and improved. The following links provide further information about the Six Thinking Hats.
 * 'Six Thinking Hats' (©Edward de Bono)**
 * The White Hat = the objective facts
 * The Red Hat = emotions, feelings, hunches and intuitions
 * The Black Hat = disadvantages, difficulties and negative realities
 * The Yellow Hat = advantages and benefits
 * The Green Hat = creative improvement
 * The Blue Hat = metacognition

[] has plenty of free resources for you to tap into.

[] You can use the Six Thinking Hats in almost any problem solving activity that you might encounter in the classroom (or in life in general!) Here is an example ...

[] The Six Thinking Hats system has four specific uses ...

[] Early in the 1980s Dr. de Bono invented the Six Thinking Hats method. The method is a framework for thinking and can incorporate lateral thinking ...

[] An example of how ICT can be used to support the six thinking hats ...

[] Using the Six Hats allowed my class to look at the problem from different angles ...