Assessing and developing metacognitive skills — from Faculty Focus by MaryEllen Weimer

Excerpt:

Metacognition is easily defined: “[It] refers to the ability to reflect upon, understand and control one’s learning,” (Schraw and Dennison, p. 460) or, even more simply, “thinking about one’s thinking.” Despite straightforward definitions, metacognition is a complicated construct that has been the object of research for more than 30 years.

Research supports theories that separate metacognition into two major components: knowledge of cognition and regulation of cognition. Knowledge of cognition “describes an individual’s awareness of cognition at three different levels: declarative (knowing about things), procedural (knowing about how to do things), and conditional (knowing why and when to do things).” (Cooper and Sandi-Urena, p. 240) Regulation of cognition relates to how learners control their learning. Relevant regulatory activities include planning, monitoring, and evaluating.

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70 jobs for 2030 -- from The Futurist -- Jan Feb 2011 edition


From DSC:

With potential job titles like Transhumanist consultant, Digital archaeologist, Augmented reality architect, Terabyter (lifelogger), and others…makes you wonder what’s the best way to educate today’s students.  On the top of my list:

  • Be prepared for change; be flexible and adaptable
  • Learn how you best learn — then be prepared to use, tweak, and build on those strategies throughout your lifetime
  • Constantly take pulse checks on what’s happening in the world around you — technologically, politically, demographically, etc.
  • Know where to go for information
  • “Chance favors the prepared/connected mind”  <– a combination of quotes I’ve heard and that I agree with; point is to be constantly building your personal learning networks (PLN’s) and to periodically peer out into the future to see what’s coming down the pike
  • See if you can get a hold of your own learning stats/analytics to ascertain strengths, weaknesses, passions, interests

Addendum on 1-12-11, also see:

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