EDUC262 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Metacognition, Mnemonic
28 Aug 2018
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Awareness of your own cognitive machinery and how the machinery works. Mission control it enables students to coordinate the use of extensive knowledge and many separate strategies to accomplish a single goal. Even young children understand importance of gaze/objects. Older students increasingly understand importance of posture/emotion/cognition. Understanding o own ability relative to task demands. Active interaction with material to be learned. Executive control of application to task and strategy use. Knowledge that memory is fallible; may not remember. Recognition that a strategy is needed: wm limited. For future; attribution of success to that strategy. I have a good memory for facts: knowledge (declarative) I rehearsed for my biology exam but it wasn"t effective: regulation (evaluation) Ill spend no more than an hour learning these definitions: regulation (planning) I am distracted sooooo easily: knowledge (declarative) Use of the peg method, mnemonic: knowledge (procedural) I know mnemonics are best for simple facts: knowledge (conditional) Believe mind is a passive container for information.
