Planning Our Learning: Mindful Metacognition
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Join us for this workshop where we will explore the scope of metacognition and how it helps learners plan, evaluate, and change learning behaviors.
And, in an age of AI where the ‘easy way out’ entices? It may even be the key to reminding students of their own brain and its power.
The prefix meta– serves as self-referential to its attached base word. Metadata is data about data; metatheory is theory about theory; and therefore metacognition is cognition about cognition or, as the ever popular pedagogical catchphrase goes, “thinking about thinking”.
However, metacognition is more than thinking about thinking. It is also knowing what we know, organizing what we know, and judging what we know to then decipher what it is we don’t know and how we will know when we know it. Of course, in a more direct sense: metacognition is an assessment and monitoring of our own knowledge.
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- Marilena Orfanos, Instructional Designer