[HN Gopher] Mastering Metacognition: The What, Why, and How ___________________________________________________________________ Mastering Metacognition: The What, Why, and How Author : Secrethus Score : 37 points Date : 2022-02-24 10:32 UTC (12 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.activelylearn.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.activelylearn.com) | nefitty wrote: | This is a great article. The implementable points are laid bare | without fluff. | | 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. | | 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 | | 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/ | | 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 ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-02-24 23:00 UTC)