{"id":14551,"date":"2011-01-31T13:35:01","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T18:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=14551"},"modified":"2011-01-31T13:37:11","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T18:37:11","slug":"can-students-learn-to-learn-item-on-metacognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/01\/31\/can-students-learn-to-learn-item-on-metacognition\/","title":{"rendered":"Can students learn to learn? [ item on metacognition]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2011\/01\/31\/colleges_try_to_use_metacognition_to_improve_student_learning\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Can students learn to learn?<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from InsideHigherEd.com by Scott Jaschik<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">SAN FRANCISCO &#8212; Why do some students in a course perform better than others of roughly equal ability?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The  answers, of course, are as varied as are students. Some spend more time  studying, or study more efficiently; some have other priorities; some  don&#8217;t connect with the instructor. Some of these factors relate to  metacognition, defined variously as knowing about knowing or being able  to understand why we learn the way we do. A student with <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>metacognition <\/strong><\/span>may realize after a disappointing test that she didn&#8217;t study hard  enough, and needs to devote more time to academics. The student  operating without metacognition may respond to the same setback by  trashing his instructor on RateMyProfessors.com.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">By forcing students to stop for a few minutes and associate their study  habits with their exam performance, and to think about why they don&#8217;t  know an answer, the academics hope to change students&#8217; habits &#8212; to  encourage them to figure out what they don&#8217;t know and to study in more  effective ways (and more). &#8220;We want those who are not doing well to  think about it,&#8221; Bonnie said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can students learn to learn? &#8212; from InsideHigherEd.com by Scott Jaschik SAN FRANCISCO &#8212; Why do some students in a course perform better than others of roughly equal ability? The answers, of course, are as varied as are students. Some spend more time studying, or study more efficiently; some have other priorities; some don&#8217;t connect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,223,468,101,66],"tags":[620,569,685,459,621,603],"class_list":["post-14551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-theories","category-metacognition-metacognitive-skills","category-psychology","category-student-related","tag-cognitive-psychology-computing","tag-learning-ecosystem","tag-learning-theories","tag-metacognition","tag-psychology","tag-student-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14551"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14557,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14551\/revisions\/14557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}