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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…
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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? The initial consideration is to consider the maturity of the brain. Metacognition is…
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Metacognition and Empathy
I have written a couple of times about the link between higher order thinking skills and moral development but a recent comment on another article has prompted me to visit the subject again The comment was that empathy is needed alongside higher order thinking skills in order for us to make the…
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Critical Thinking and Metacognition
One of the main problems with learning to think critically is the problem of transference. This is a problem that plagues learning in general. How do we take what we have learned and use it in a way that we have not been trained to use it? In almost every area of…
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Knowing what You Know – Metacognition
Metacognition is thinking about thinking or is a set of skills that allows us to control and direct our cognitive abilities. Metacognition? Cognition first. I was in my first cognition class as a 30-year-old adult before I had any idea what cognition is. I took the class because cognitive psychology was one…
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Science of Learning: Thinking & Understanding
In addition to teaching content, the primary, avowed purpose of higher education is to teach people how to think, and take information and turn it into knowledge. The difference between information and knowledge is understanding. Knowing that 2X2=4 is nothing more than information if you really don’t understand that 2X2 means two…
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Science of Learning: Metacognition in Education
Not only is it difficult to measure and develop metacognitive skills, but the current state of education systematically stifles metacognitive development. One of the hallmarks of metacognitive development is divergent thinking. Divergent thinking requires an individual to think of different ways that a solution can be reached. It requires cognitive flexibility, as…
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Science of Learning: Metacognition in Life
As with most of the higher order thinking skills, metacognition plays a wider role in life than just academic work. However, metacognition has, by far, the widest reaching effects in people’s lives as the following list demonstrates. This is likely the reason why educators have focussed and tried to develop metacognition in…
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ACEs, Critical Thinking, Metacognition, Rational Thinking, Science of Learning - General, Society, Training
It’s Not How we do Higher Education, It’s What we do in Higher Education
We live in a complex world with a myriad of problems that need attention. We have what we need to seriously address them, but we have failed to develop what we most need – our human capital. Students enter higher education by the millions with 87% wanting nothing more than a degree…
