Metacognition
is a very important concept yet it can be simplified so easily. With the rapid
development of information diffusion technologies, students can use the
Internet, multimedia, and other digital instruments to acquire new knowledge
with ease. However, in face of diverse e-learning environments, how they can
choose useful information and monitor their self-learning process is an issue
that educators should pay attention to.
Here is a introduction of the
metacognitive strategies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoKUcRwLCWA
In recent
years, some online courses, learning materials, and empirical studies on
development of metacognitive skills have been proposed. Most of them were
focused on metacognitive skills in science or language learning domains.
Increasing
metacognitive awareness (knowing what you know, and what you don’t know) is
critical for better self-regulation. Researchers have also pointed out that
most learners are deficient in performing basic metacognitive skills and will
not actively pursue metacognitive activities on their own. For examples of this
research, see the References listed at the end of this article by Claire E.
Weinstein, Jenefer Husman, and Douglas R. Dierking, and by Philip Winne.
Twitter is a convenient platform to provide this type of metacognitive support.
There
following are some examples.
Nicely done! =) As the cognition about cognition, I treat meta-cognition as a way to reorganize organized information in users' own way, so as to achieve easy reuse, easy browsing or similar features. By making good use of human behaviors, social networks can be really user-friendly. And now I see the point of learning psychology in this course. =)
ReplyDeleteBoth Lynn and you give me a deep understanding about metacognition. Now, I can easily say the second level cognition monitor our first level cognition in several methods, such as categorizing, processing, predicting, etc. For now, everyone on the Internet has to deal with a large amount of information. Therefore, to make a better social networks website, the company should help users manage their information by using metacognition strategies. Your three examples are some good methods.
ReplyDeleteIt is true that there are more and more language learning materials on the Internet these years, which has something to do with metacognition skills. From 1980s, the focus of second language learning has changed from "how to teach" to "how to learn". The strategies of metacognition in listening skills like self-control, self-evaluation and selective attention have great influence on a student's ability of listening. So, training of learning strategies became a hot topic.
ReplyDeleteGood article! I have to say the skeleton of your blog is very clear. The examples of metacognition strategies in social website are interesting and suitable to the article. From thos examples, I can totally understand your point that some online courses, learning materials, and empirical studies on development of metacognitive skills have been proposed.
ReplyDeleteYes I agree that boosting metacognitive awareness is very important for self-regulation and self-learning on web. Also, examples given make readers to understand the content of the essay.
ReplyDeletenice, so far as I know, metacognition is often referred to as "thinking about thinking" and can be used to help “learn how to learn.”, you give a good youtube example to help me understand the concept "metacognition"...thanks for sharing..
ReplyDeleteThank you for your several examples on metacognition strategies of online sharing~ but I was wondering more cases of this except for 'feather list', ' category seperater' and 'favorite adder'. Some website provide margine for users to leave some information of their own thoughts. I think it's also a kind of metacognition strategies~
ReplyDelete