Metacognition

What is metacognition?

• Thinking about how to learn

• Thinking about what to learn

• Thinking about lessons

Metacognition helps students to __________

• understand the process of learning

• understand the course content

• understand Prof. Nepomuceno’s accent

Students with good metacognitive abilities can _________

• reflect on their learning

• Identify their own strengths and weaknesses

• All of the above

You have presented a new task. You want them to assess it. What would be the best question to ask?

• What did we do last week?

• what skills did you use in the task last week that you can re-use in this task?

• How is this task similar to the task we did last week?

You want them to evaluate their strengths. What would be the best question to ask?

• What are your strengths?

• What are you good at?

• When have you met a similar problem? What helped you solve it?

You want them to evaluate weaknesses. What would be the best question to ask?

• What are your weaknesses?

• What challenges might you face and how will you overcome them?

• Which topic are you least confident with?

You want them to plan their next steps. What would be the best question to ask?

• How many possible ways could you do this? Which one will work best for you... why?

• What are you going to do?

• Are you a visual or kinesthetic learner?

You are going through the answers to a test. What would be the best question to ask?

• what questions did you get wrong?

• What was the correct answer?

• What steps did you take to get to that answer? Which one led you down the wrong path?

You want them to reflect on their learning. What would be the best question to ask?

• What activity was most helpful to you today and why?

• What did you learn today?

• Have you met the learning intention?

What is an example of metacognition?

• Someone figuring out what their learning style is

• Someone remembers how to do their homework

• Planning how to get the most out of learning