Metacognition Knowing what you Know Improvement Method
The foundation of metacognition is knowing what you know and what you don’t know. This is based on a feeling. When you know (or think that you know) that you know something, there is a feeling of certainty. My students and I looked into this a few years ago. Our measurements showed us that first-year university students were able to ascertain whether or not they knew something was at a chance rate. After a few weeks (six) we were able to teach them to recognize that feeling with a greater degree of certainty.
- 25/07/2018
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Tick-Box Learning
Education is (or should be) about learning. However, as we became fully immersed in the modern accountancy or administrative mode of education, everything in education must be accounted for and accountability has become a primary concern for teachers.
- 23/07/2018
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Learning Metacognition as Higher Order Thinking
I have written in the past about the two levels of metacognition with the higher order allowing an individual to use a full suite of higher order thinking skills across any context. How is this kind of thinking achieved?
- 17/07/2018
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Whose Fault is This?
One of the underlying questions that I keep getting in an implicit and non-direct manner is the question of how we got to where we are now with things in a non-optimal way. In a nutshell, nobody.
- 14/07/2018
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State of Our Graduates
A year ago I wrote a piece about how the world is changing and what is happening to our students after graduation. Although the unemployment rate is at rock bottom rates, the fate of our higher education graduates isn’t getting that much better.
- 04/07/2018
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