First Intake: Metacognition Month
Posted on April 29th, 2011 by Michael
The first intake of Metacognition Month already has 20 participants.
Starting on May Day, the first of May 2011, School of Thinking will be celebrating Metacognition Month.
All SOT participants will receive an email a day. There are no fees. You may invite a friend, too.
If you would like to be considered as a participant, please POST your answer below to the following DFQ (Daily Feedback Question):
What do you think is metacognition?
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May 25th, 2012 at 4:16 am
Metacognition helps people to perform many cognitive tasks more effectively. Strategies for promoting metacognition include self-questioning (e.g. “What do I already know about this topic? How have I solved problems like this before?”), thinking aloud while performing a task, and making graphic representations (e.g. concept maps, flow charts, semantic webs) of one’s thoughts and knowledge. The physical act of writing plays a large part in the development of metacognitive skills.
Imagine having active control over the process of thinking! Learning!
Cognitive processes such as planning, working memory, attention, problem solving, verbal reasoning, inhibition, mental flexibility, multi-tasking, initiation and monitoring of actions can be greatly enhanced using Metacognition.
May 4th, 2011 at 1:24 pm
metacognition teaches us how to think or it is the way we think or the way we look at thinking.
May 3rd, 2011 at 1:05 pm
thinking about thinking
May 2nd, 2011 at 10:48 pm
If I can go beyond and think about thinking what more can I want !!!!!!
May 1st, 2011 at 11:47 pm
I believe Metacognition will be expanding the concept of the power of thought into an abstraction of cvs 2 bvs which could incorporate the possibility of thought being an energy field having a direct influence upon the Life and health of the Thinker. If the proper thought patterns of a Thinker can taught and implemented it could change the Lives of all who understand the principles and act upon them.
May 1st, 2011 at 10:31 pm
I’m doing it right now, thinking about thinking.
May 1st, 2011 at 3:49 pm
It is the subtler part of cognition.
May 1st, 2011 at 1:37 pm
Metacognition = being awake!
May 1st, 2011 at 5:21 am
a higher level or deeper level of awareness
May 1st, 2011 at 3:46 am
Metacongnition is about thinking beyong the ordinary.I hopeit will further expand my thinking process a little a t a time. I want to take part. Thanks
May 1st, 2011 at 12:17 am
I have never heard (or read) the term before, but dissecting it I believe it refers to a higher level cognition. Cognition beyond the ordinary, or cognition about the ordinary cognition.
April 30th, 2011 at 12:56 pm
I think metacognition might be the idea of awareness of the small details that create the sum of your cognitive experience(s). Perhaps too the involvement of all sensory input to fill the experience.
I suppose I’ll find out.
Jen
April 30th, 2011 at 1:43 am
Metacognition is thinking about thinking –
, enhances the privilege of choice ….
a valuable “tool” to help us getting out of the “thinking ratrace”, gives us the time to enlarge the gap between stimulus and response, helps us to think about current habits and therefore gives us the chance to create new ones – hopefully better ones
I like it!
April 30th, 2011 at 1:28 am
The most important thinking process. Sel-regulation, reflection, self-awareness and much more. Greetings from sunny Mexico
April 30th, 2011 at 1:19 am
Thinking about your thinking -asking yourself “What do I need to think about in order to get this done?”
it’s kind of like an over arching umbrella which enables you to choose the best way forward CVS to BVS
April 29th, 2011 at 11:16 pm
Metacognition is defined as “cognition about cognition”, or “knowing about knowing.”[1] It can take many forms; it includes knowledge about when and how to use particular strategies for learning or for problem solving.[1] Metcalfe, J., & Shimamura, A. P. (1994). Metacognition: knowing about knowing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press via Wikipedia
April 29th, 2011 at 9:36 pm
To reflect on learning
April 29th, 2011 at 9:18 pm
thinking about what you already know and thinking further
I think is the essence of thinking
April 29th, 2011 at 6:22 pm
Cognition about cognition. Or in other words thinking bout thinking – how and why I think in a certain way.
Hopefully I made it for the first intake -:))
Greetings from sunny Bulgaria !
April 29th, 2011 at 6:07 pm
Metacognition is ‘thinking about your thinking’.
Working with students with learning difficulties, it is important to teach the learning process. Help students to become aware of and monitor their learning strategies.
Students with specific learning difficulites particularly need support in these areas: executive functioning, learning style, multiple intelligence, DeBono’s hats and Habits of Mind.
Metacognition is paraticularly important for coaching and mentoring students, teachers, business people and leadership. Love it.
April 29th, 2011 at 6:05 pm
Metacognition can be conscious awareness, monitoiring and reflection on your own learning and problem solving. It can also be used to refer to stragtegies that are used in a group to solve a problem.
April 29th, 2011 at 5:42 pm
Thinking about thinking, like learning about how to learn