November 2010 Blog Posts (3)

Six Thinking Hats in iPhone/iPad Application

Hi! In June, I put down a very simple program into iPad for recording the discussions on Six Thinking Hats with my children. With time, more features were added to the program. Now, I found it is quite user friendly. I do not believe it is possible to write a good computer program to teach thinking, especially for teaching children. I believe this is the jobs of parents and teachers. But I believe this program can help the users to practicing thinking, and use it as a tool to assist the… Continue

Added by Raymund Kwok on November 11, 2010 at 13:00 — 11 Comments

Why Do Thinking Skills Work?

Thought this was an interesting article, because it attempts to describe how and why some of the tools of lateral thinking works the way they do. Wonder where the original idea came from to "free-associate"? Was it Freud's idea, as the term suggests?

The first paragraph reminded me so much of what de Bono points out about language; that words are frozen meanings. In this article, only one means of escape is offered. Of course, de Bono offers many more. Would love to hear what you… Continue

Added by Franis on November 9, 2010 at 6:46 — 8 Comments