EDU 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Metacognition, Cognitive Development, Confirmation Bias
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It"s helping you figure out what to encode and put into your working memory. Cognitive development is still not developed fully and putting them in an educational setting will help shape it (socialization) Earn enough knowledge to become a functioning member of society. Supervision: watching the children so parents can go to work: reforming education: Economic: how do we educate our children so that they take over our places. Cultural: how do we educate them so that they have some sort of cultural identity. Preconceptions: what is in your head already matters, in regards to new learning. Richly structured information base: building relationships and connections between the things you"re learning and you"re doing it in a way that makes sense to you. Metacognition: when we can step outside our own thinking and monitor our own state of understanding and learning, is a jolt to the system. Metacognitive processes is really important to the learning system.
