- What is meta-cognition?
- When you learn something new, cramming information non-stop is not effective
- You need strategies to learn
- ==Learn how to learn==
- Meta-cognition is being self-aware of your own thinking, thinking about thinking or knowing about knowing
- Comprises of 3 components
- Knowledge
- Regulation
- Experiences
- Knowledge
- What you know about yourself and others in terms of thinking and learning process
- Declarative knowledge
- What you know about yourself
- The type of learner that I am is action based
- The act of doing or writing down information helps me understand the topic
- I can’t rely on listening or reading on their own to retain knowledge
- Procedural knowledge
- Conditional
- Knowing when or why you should use Declarative knowledge and Procedural knowledge
- Regulation
- The activities and strategies you use to control your learning in order to improve this learning ability
- Planning
- Prior to starting to learn a new topic, think about how to allocate energy and time into learning it
- What kind of strategies to deploy? (See Procedural knowledge)
- When to use them to maximize my performance
- Monitoring
- Stay aware of where I feel like I am struggling
- Instead of passively receiving all the information, actively question the process
- Evaluating
- After finishing a chunk, reconsider the strategy and my performance
- Make changes before moving on to the next chunk
- For example, I am currently reading a textbook on transportation modelling and I have been taking linear notes on each chapter. However, while experimenting with Roam, I might move it over to a more fluid and segmented note taking platform
- Experiences
- The thoughts and feelings you have while studying and learning something
- Awareness
- Thoughts
- Feelings