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LEARNING TO LEARN: BECOMING A SELF -GROWER 319
EXPERIENCE 11 M ETACOGNITION: THINKING ABOUT MY THINKING
O BJECTIVES
1. Strengthen critical thinking skills by focusing on your own thinking process in relation to learning,
problem solving, and learning skills.
2. Strengthen the role methodologies play in improving metacognition.
3. Prepare for strategically elevating your level of learner knowledge.
D ISCOVERY E XERCISE
Metacognitive Exploration: My Learning
1. Identify something you have learned recently that you can demonstrate through a performance (you
can show that you know it). It must be, at a minimum, at Level 2: Conceptual Understanding in the
Levels of Learner Knowledge.
Note: Take some time to reflect on the learning you want to select. It should be robust enough that it
can be taught to someone else and important enough that others would need to learn it as well.
2. Complete a Learning Journal worksheet for that learning.
3. Complete the Metacognitive Exploration worksheet.
4. Answer the Exploration Questions.
R EADINGS
Elevating Knowledge from Level 1 to Level 3
Generalizing
Thinking about Thinking: developing metacognition in children (Read the Abstract, Introduction, and first
section, “Metacognition: what is it?”)
[Fisher R. (1998), Early Child Development and Care, Vol 141 (1998) pp1-15.] Available from the
course website: www.pcrest.com/L2L
R ESOURCES
Learning Journal worksheet
Metacognitive Exploration worksheet
Classification of Learning Skills (Experience 1)
Levels of Learner Knowledge (available in Experiences 2 and 10)
Learning Process Methodology (Experience 2)
E XPLORATION Q UESTIONS
1. How do you know what you want to say before you say it?