Learning to be a Better Learner Flashcards
It is the awareness of the scope and limitations of your current knowledge and skills (Meichenbaum 1985 in Americal Institutes for Research 2010).
Metacognition
It enables the person to adapt their existing knowledge and skills in order to approach a learning task, seeking for the optimum result of the learning experience (American Institutes for Research 2010).
Metacognition
It also includes keeping one’s emotions and motivations in check while learning (Papaleontiou-Louca 2003, p.9).
Metacognition
What are the 2 Aspects of Metacognition?
- Self-Appraisal
- Self-Management
What are the 3 variables on How you Know or Assess Yourself as a Thinker?
- Personal Variable
- Task Variable
- Strategy Variable
This is your own evaluation of your strengths and weaknesses?
Personal Variable
This is what you know or what you think of the nature of the task.
Task Variable
This is what strategies do you already use in dealing with similar tasks.
Strategy variable
What are the 5 Sample Metacognitive Skills?
- Know your limits
- Modify your approach
- Learn how to skim
- Rehearse
- Self-Test
What are the 4 Types of Metacognitive Learners?
- Tacit Learners
- Aware Learners
- Strategic Learners
- Reflective Learners
Unaware of their metacognitive processes, but know the extent of their knowledge.
Tacit Learners
Recognize some of their metacognitive processes, but the use of techniques are unplanned.
Aware Learners
Plan their learning experience.
Strategic Learners
Reflect on their metacognitive strategies, and adapt according to the situation.
Reflective Learners
FAMILIARIZE ONLY!
Additional Strategies in Learning
- Make an outline.
- Break down tasks to manageable pieces.
- Integrate variation in your learning.
- Incubate your ideas.
- Take down notes and summarize.
- Do something about what you are learning (highlight, scrapbook, video, concept map, etc).
