Metacognition
Metacognition refers to the awareness and understanding of one’s own thought processes. It encompasses two key components:
- Metacognitive Knowledge: This involves knowledge about oneself as a learner and about different strategies and how they work. It includes awareness of what you know and what you don’t, as well as knowing which strategies are effective for learning and problem-solving.
- Metacognitive Regulation: This refers to the self-regulation of cognition through planning, monitoring, and evaluating. It involves setting goals for learning, checking your understanding during the process, and reflecting on the outcomes after the task is completed.
Metacognition plays a critical role in effective learning, as it enables individuals to control their cognitive processes and improve their problem-solving abilities. By developing metacognitive skills, learners can identify their strengths and weaknesses, adapt their learning strategies, and ultimately enhance their overall learning experience.
- Snippet from Wikipedia: Metacognition
Metacognition is an awareness of one's thought processes and an understanding of the patterns behind them. The term comes from the root word meta, meaning "beyond", or "on top of". Metacognition can take many forms, such as reflecting on one's ways of thinking, and knowing when and how oneself and others use particular strategies for problem-solving. There are generally two components of metacognition: (1) cognitive conceptions and (2) cognitive regulation system. Research has shown that both components of metacognition play key roles in metaconceptual knowledge and learning. Metamemory, defined as knowing about memory and mnemonic strategies, is an important aspect of metacognition.
Writings on metacognition date back at least as far as two works by the Greek philosopher Aristotle (384–322 BC): On the Soul and the Parva Naturalia.
Related:
- Enterprise Metacognition (Organizational Metacognition)
External links:
- What Is Metacognition? How Does It Help Us Think? | Psychology Today — psychologytoday.com
- A new book sheds light on how to strengthen students' thinking skills and why metacognition is important to child and adolescent development.
- Getting started with Metacognition — cambridge-community.org.uk
- Metacognition - The Learning Agency Lab — the-learning-agency-lab.com
- Metacognition And The Future Of AI? — forbes.com
- There’s a notable twist amid current debates over ChatGPT: The more AI races to general intelligence, the more it requires metacognition – both for people and itself.
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- Humans have metacognition. To advance today's AI, we need to devise machine metacognition. It is the next frontier for AI, and possibly all humanity. Here's the scoop.
- Metacognition In Digital Environments - TeachingTimes — teachingtimes.com
- Can metacognitive skills and digitally enhanced learning reinforce each other? In this sixth article in our metacognition series, Professor Keith Topping examines metacognitive programs embedded in digital environments.
- Organizational metacognition - Wikipedia — en.wikipedia.org