Ahead of, and with additional thanks to the pandemic, digital technology has been thrust into the education stratosphere like never before. Teachers are picking up tools to bring into their learning environments with well-meaning intentions, but what is happening here? Well-meaning intentions aside, are students getting the absolute benefits from these tools? Existing models ofContinue reading “Why e-portfolios and Metacognition? Who cares?”
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What about Self-Regulated Learning?
Self-regulated learning is often considered the umbrella that covers metacognition. When we think about self-regulation, often we may be distracted by the biased nature in which we assess it on report cards, or in the way that self-regualtion and dysregulation present. As it applies to metacognition, self-regulated learning (SRL) incorporates the many emotional and psychologicalContinue reading “What about Self-Regulated Learning?”
Have we developed metacognitively deficient learners by creating immediate access to answers (internet)?
In the times when the internet and digital devices that handle internet access become ubiquitous, have impending implications on overall student learning? With a grain of salt, what the impact might be from a different lens than the usual mental health, inactivity or other arguments that have been made. Not to make light of those,Continue reading “Have we developed metacognitively deficient learners by creating immediate access to answers (internet)? “
What the heck is Metacognition?
Reading article after article about metacognition, and one is left wondering, what the heck is it anyways? Educators have probably heard the term more than a few times but none are required to assess on it, nor is it really possible to assess it. However what the research says, and what every educator needs toContinue reading “What the heck is Metacognition?”
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