EDPS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Metacognition, Procedural Knowledge, Nonconformist

• School: Concordia University of Edmonton
• Department: Educational Psychology
• Course: EDPS 200
• Professor: Jason Daniels

Document Summary

Metacognition literally means cognition- or thinking about thinking. Procedural - knowledge of things we can do. Three skills used to regulate thinking and learning: Planning: how much time to give a task. Macro: planning on how and what to study. Evaluating: making judgements about processes and outcomes of thinking and learning. Individual differences in metacognition may result form different paces of development (maturation) or biological differences among learners. Help students develop habits of "looking in" at their own thinking (self- reflection) i. e. asking you to explain how you got your answer after a math question. L - at the end of the reading/inquiry, what have i learned. In young children, majority of their cognition goes to applying skills and self- ath and. In young children, majority of their cognition goes to applying skills and understanding their surroundings (maturation) Build self-reflective questions into assignments and learning materials. Learning strategies are a kind of procedural knowledge.