The Six Thinking Hats

Edward de Bono

Use these links to explore ideas about using the six Thinking Hats

http://www.aptt.com/debono.htm from the company Advanced Practical Thinking Training Inc, based in Des Moines, the capital city of Iowa, USA

A brief statement about Edward de Bono "the world’s leading authority on conceptual thinking"

http://library.usask.ca/ustudy/critical/sixhats.html, from the University of Saskatchewan, located in the city of Saskatoon, in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada.

Using a simple table, "this site identifies the six hats, their characteristics and some of the questions you should ask with each one".

http://www.ozemail.com.au/~mickday/6hats.htm . Michael Day has developed this site in conjunction with Sacred Heart School in Croydon, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

"These pages will focus on applying his strategies within "Six Hat Thinking" in the primary classroom around the middle school area". A detailed summary of the Six Hats thinking, with some examples

http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/teachereduc/indexTE.html is drawing together a number of teaching and learning Internet sites from around Australia - developed by teachers for teachers.

"As a teaching tool it is used as a teaching method framework for thinking, and can incorporate lateral thinking". A colourful and vibrant summary of the Six Hats concept

http://www.discover.tased.edu.au/english/sixhats.htm is a page produced by the Professional Learning Services Branch of the Tasmanian Department of Education.

"Six Thinking Hats is a strategy devised by Edward de Bono which requires students (and teachers), to extend their way of thinking about a topic by wearing a range of different ’thinking‘ hats". A summary of Six Hats, along with and various applications
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~caveman/Creative/Techniques/sixhats.htm . This page is linked from a page developed by Charles Cave, who describes himself as the Renaissance Man Down Under, from Sydney, Australia. A Creativity Web link takes users through to this page. "The key point is that a hat is a direction to think rather than a label for thinking. The key theoretical reasons to use the Six Thinking Hats are to: encourage Parallel Thinking encourage full-spectrum thinking separate ego from performance". A detailed look at the application of  the Six Hats
http://www.twbookmark.com/books/62/0316177911/chapter_excerpt9537.html is a chapter taken from a book available from Time Warner Trade Publishing. "Argument versus Parallel Thinking. The basic idea behind Western thinking was designed about twenty-three hundred years ago by the Greek "Gang of Three" and is based on argument". An historical summary of the development of the Six Hats concept.
http://www.thinksmart.com/articles/sixhats.html . Innovation Network was formally created in the Fall of 1993 by Joyce Wycoff, author of Mindmapping and Transformation Thinking. Joyce envisioned a professional association of individuals and companies that pursue innovative thinking and processes. "Use the full potential of your thinking capabilities and learn to be creative with the 'Six Thinking Hats' technique". A detailed look at the hats with real life references
http://www.resourcesunlimited.com/preread_sixhats.asp "The Six Hats system is not just another gimmick. This system provides an alternative to that most basic of thinking procedures: the argument". A brief history of thinking puts Six Hats into context
http://cispom.boisestate.edu/murli/cps/sixhats.html "Six Thinking Hats is a technique designed to help individuals deliberately adopt a variety of perspectives on a subject that may be very different from the one that they might most naturally assume. In wearing a particular thinking hat, people play roles, or "as if" themselves into a particular perspective". A summary of the Six Hats idea, with the use of descriptions, associated words, and various uses
http://www.newiq.com/services/wbrochure/w_sixhats.htm "The six colored hats used by the method are designed to make Parallel Thinking® a practical process that can be remembered and put to use. Studies have shown that individuals and teams trained in the Six Hats method experience a five-fold increase in the quantity and quality of their thinking and reduce meeting times by fifty percent". A brief explanation and advert for a company
http://www.me.udel.edu/~wilkins/tqd_man/tqd_a4_6hats.html A wordy and plain english explanation of the Six Hats with a number of examples
http://www.deakin.edu.au/~spalm/srp70733.html "The six thinking hats method is extremely simple but it is powerful in its simplicity". A very wordy and rather plain English look at the topic with a bias towards leadership angle