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LEARNING TO LEARN: BECOMING A SELF -GROWER 333
EXPERIENCE 11 M ETACOGNITION: THINKING ABOUT MY THINKING
Elevating My Thinking
WHY
Thinking about thinking in different processes is fundamental to produce metacognitive thought throughout
your academic and professional life. The ability to step back from doing to understand what, how and
why you are doing something allows you to be very self-aware and conscious of your own decisions,
actions, and behaviors. Exercising self-control and deliberately choosing your thinking and actions is very
empowering. When you’re in charge of those things, you’re no longer just a demographic, consumer, or
pawn in the plans of others, acting and reacting in ways that serve their best interests rather than your own.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES This learning activity will teach you to:
1. Learn to be your own researcher when it comes to your thinking and your mind’s performance.
2. Advance understanding of the role critical thinking plays in other key processes, especially learning.
3. Strengthen your ability to select the critical learning skills in each performance area to use and improve.
PERFORMANCE CRITERIA If you successfully complete this activity, you will be able to:
From a given learning experience, enhance future performance with this knowledge through metacognition
• Articulation of what has been learned and the role of that knowledge in a key performance
• Identify and describe the “why” (purpose) for learning and especially your own motivation for this
learning
• Identify the critical learning skills used in the learning and gauge improvement in these specific
skills