Metacognition Flashcards

Metacognition

Conscious effort to control cognitive processes (thinking abt ur own thinking)

Metacognitive Components

Knowledge

Regulation

Experience

Metacognitive Goals

Metacognitive Knowledge

One’s knowledge of other cognitive creatures and abilities

Social metacognition

Thinking about other people’s thinking

Reflecting about your own thinking in public contexts

Two levels of metacognition

Object level: where learning and thinking happens

Meta level: monitors and controls thinking

Benefits

Helps promote collaboration and teamwork

Helps evaluate what others know/don’t know

Allows us to adjust how we explain or interact

In the classroom

Teachers can encourage continuous self-assessment in the classroom

Have students employ deferred gratification

Create class plans that have independent practice/ self reflections