[HN Gopher] Mastering Metacognition: The What, Why, and How
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       Mastering Metacognition: The What, Why, and How
        
       Author : Secrethus
       Score  : 37 points
       Date   : 2022-02-24 10:32 UTC (12 hours ago)
        
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       | nefitty wrote:
       | This is a great article. The implementable points are laid bare
       | without fluff.
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       | To add to the article from my personal research, one of the most
       | powerful activities I've implemented thus far in my intellectual
       | and work life are reflection journals. This basically entails
       | taking a moment after producing a piece of work to analyze its
       | quality and extract lessons from it. I honestly think it is a
       | super power.
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       | I discovered the process through learning about effective study.
       | Medical education is a treasure trove of this type of research,
       | for example, the use of mnemonic images a la Sketchy.com. There's
       | also a large body of work on reflection, specifically in nursing.
       | I've found a lot of those lessons to be generalizable and
       | immediately applicable to my work as a programmer and in my art,
       | learning and music.
       | 
       | For more info, the wiki page is great:
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflective_practice
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       | More in line with the article in question, here's MIT's Teaching
       | + Learning Labs articles on metacognition and self-regulation,
       | which I was coincidentally studying two days ago:
       | https://tll.mit.edu/teaching-resources/how-people-learn/
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       | Finally, I'll share an Observable notebook with the simple
       | template I use for my reflective practice:
       | https://observablehq.com/@iz/reflection
        
       | tedyoung wrote:
       | Asking questions that elicit thinking, and not just rote answers,
       | are what we want in learning. Not just "what's the answer to
       | [question]", but "how did you get that?" This also works well for
       | uncovering wrong assumptions or incorrect problem-solving
       | methods. Getting students (or anyone) to learn how to learn on
       | their own is, sadly, not taught in school here (California).
       | 
       | I gave a talk a few years ago on how people learn:
       | https://ted.dev/learntalks
        
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