Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Seth Godin and Tom Peters on blogging. Yeah, this is pretty much why I blog (and maybe why you should too)… No related posts.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

Metacognition is defined as thinking about one’s thinking or learning. More formally, “metacognition was originally referred to as the knowledge about and the regulation of one’s cognitive activities in learning processes” (Veenman, Van Hout-Wolters, & Afflerbach, 2006, p.3). What was their process?

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2024

Novak and I dedicate a chapter to reimagining formative assessment as simply a teacher tool and share a collection of strategies designed to transform formative assessment into a metacognitive tool for learners! We must collect formative assessment data in each lesson to understand our students’ progress and respond to their needs.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Start with WHY So, what can a teacher do to combat unpreparedness when using the flipped classroom? What is the value and purpose of flipped instruction? Using a digital platform to assess student learning makes it possible to quickly identify what students know or understand and surface that data quickly.

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Hapara

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Listen to an audio version of this post: [link] What is heutagogy? Instead they may see the potential to learn from a novel experience and recognize the opportunity to reflect on what’s taken place and observe how it “challenges, disconfirms or supports existing values and assumptions.” Children are naturally active learners.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 29, 2021

What am I learning? What am I understanding? What is confusing? What resources do I have access to if I need support? In what areas am I demonstrating significant growth? In what areas am I struggling to make progress? In what areas am I struggling to make progress? Why am I learning this?

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 8, 2021

Help students develop their metacognitive and self-regulation skills. Each module includes video lessons, resources, templates, and action items designed to encourage teachers to take what they are learning and create resources and lessons they can use with students immediately. Give students more agency over their learning.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

You’ll definitely want to read “What is Self-Directed Learning?” Metacognition and Reflection Metacognition is all about being aware of your own learning process. A good read on this would be Flavell’s seminal works on metacognitive theories namely: Flavell, J. Resnick (Ed.), Dickson (Ed.),

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 8, 2023

Here is what she provided: In a self-paced classroom, it's essential to help students manage their time. Students are more prone to own their learning as they are taking proactive steps to identify where they are, where they want to be, and what is needed to succeed. Metacognition in educational theory and practice (pp.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

The post-lesson reflection is an opportunity for students to pause and assess what they think they have learned in a lesson or series of lessons. Below are strategies I have used to build a reflective practice into my lessons, so I can understand what students think they have learned during a lesson. What strategies would they use?

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

In his book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us , Daniel Pink points out that extrinsic rewards–points, grades, or the promise of a class party for good behavior–are not effective ways to motivate people over time. What did they learn about their skills from assessing their work? Each student completes the assignment.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 4, 2024

A question I often get from math teachers learning about the station rotation model is, “What are students doing at the other stations that are not teacher led? A question I often get from math teachers learning about the station rotation model is, “What are students doing at the other stations that are not teacher led?”

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Although I appreciate the value of adaptive software, it is important to pair online practice with a metacognitive exercise. What strategies did they use to problem-solve? What questions or confusions did they face while working? The benefit of adaptive software is that it allows students to engage in personalized practice.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

As many educators know who have studied the growth mindset, teaching motivation and metacognitive principles is challenging. He will share with us what works (and doesn’t) and also will tackle misconceptions and misapplications of the word “grit.” You can’t just tell students to “have grit” but there are things you can say instead.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 23, 2020

In the past, I have used the SMART goal format to get students thinking about what they want to achieve in a grading period; however, given the fluid nature of the COVID-19 and school closures, I would encourage teachers to embrace goal-setting on a smaller scale (e.g., TeachingVideoConf. 3 Conferencing with Students. one week at a time).

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 12, 2019

What is our purpose? What drives us? What are we passionate about? What do we hope to achieve? Starting the year with routines designed to encourage students to develop their metacognitive skills can yield deeper learning all year long. 4 Strategies Designed to Drive Metacognitive Thinking. #5

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

APRIL 11, 2021

I am very excited to share ideas relating to PBL and Blended/eLearning as it relates to this Blog’s topic of Student Reflection and Metacognition. Part 6… Reflection and Metacognition: Free Blended and eLearning PBL Gold Standards Resources. Part 6… Reflection and Metacognition: Free Blended and eLearning PBL Gold Standards Resources.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 30, 2021

We challenge you in each module to take what you have learned and act on it. Module 4: The Magic of Metacognition. When Katie and I work with educators, we stress that a shift to universally designing blended learning is a journey. It will take time and a willingness to pursue our own learning. Below is an overview of the modules.

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EdTechTeacher

MAY 7, 2021

As students work through learning experiences, or on a daily or weekly basis, students could create short reflection videos answering questions about – not only – WHAT they learned but WHY and HOW they learned it. They can determine what makes them feel successful. They can figure out where and when they struggle.

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Edsurge

APRIL 21, 2023

Simply put, we cannot teach what we do not know or understand. There are technological tools and companies that provide software and video lessons with the expertise to allow for a metacognitive approach to learning, which can support the learner when needed. This is not to say that procedural fluency is not important.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 17, 2023

Although they understand the benefits of these collaborative conversations in station rotation, including increased self-efficacy, relationship building, and constructing knowledge together, teachers usually feel more comfortable designing teacher-led collaborative stations where they can control the discussion and ensure everyone is on task.

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Neo LMS

MAY 27, 2021

As former students, we have our first-hand experience with the educational system, we know what worked for us and what didn’t, and we tend to believe that our solutions will do wonders for millions of kids. Metacognitive strategies. When it comes to education, everyone seems to have an informed opinion. Collaborative learning.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

One day I had been planning to discuss metacognition—a learning strategy I teach to my middle-school students. Abby walked in just in time to hear me ask the class, “What is one of my favorite big words that begins with ‘M?’” Although I had been going for “metacognition,” I could not have been more proud. I’m not smart.”

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 20, 2015

Sir John Hargrave on the Every Classroom Matters Show Sir John Hargrave has taken the research on the mind and related it to current self-help practices to help us learn what works. Metacognition is an essential skill of the most successful students. The Important Metacognitive Skills We Should Teach Students.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 10, 2018

Students are rarely asked to think about their learning in a metacognitive way. Too often students become overwhelmed by all of the work teachers assign and lose sight of what they would like to achieve. Click To Tweet This is easier said than done. The ongoing assessment has a section for soft skills and a section for academic skills.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 6, 2020

What changes could educators make this year that would improve their lessons and maximize their time with students? We have to think critically about what we are doing, why we are doing it, and whether or not it is what is best for students. As a blended learning coach, I spend a lot of time in classrooms observing lessons.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 28, 2023

What barriers make designing for deeper learning in schools challenging? Intrapersonal The intrapersonal domain encompasses the development of skills such as self-directed learning, reflection, and metacognition. What solutions have you tried, and what has worked or not worked for you?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 20, 2020

Kevin Werbach, Professor, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania The fears about not having enough material to fill a class, or in getting behind with what you planned, are common. Begin with the End in Mind Before we get to the details about what will be explored in a given class session, it is time to stay broad.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Thanks to what was at the time new research in the field of self-determination theory, that passion was realized. What these approaches all have in common is that when they are implemented authentically, they foster student agency. Student agency has two parts: will and skill—or motivation and metacognition.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 2, 2018

The key is to understand what’s going on before that happens.”. Day 53 of 80 Days of Excellence From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Tabor writes fiction and nonfiction about “supercaves.”* A supercave is thousands of vertical feet deep. It’s manageable now. But at some point it might not be.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 1, 2019

Metacognition. If yes, can students identify what they’re learning, not just what they’re doing? Let me know what questions you have. If your goal for a lesson, unit, or other instructional activity is to drive deeper student thinking and learning, consider these 8 questions from Section A of the 4 Shifts Protocol.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 1, 2021

Even though collecting informal data may be more challenging online or in a concurrent classroom composed of a group of students in class and another group online simultaneously, it’s critical that teachers understand where students are and what they need to continue making progress. 2 Assess Prior Knowledge.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

I was told to study my own students and investigate what worked best. But discussions around teacher effectiveness — what methods are scientifically proven to support cognitive development — were painfully rare. What about math? That sounded hollow to me; surely more-experienced hands knew better.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 15, 2022

First, let’s overview what Lumio does and how it works. What is included in the Lumio library? With Lumio we no longer need to wait until the end of the lesson to know what students know. This way, I could look to see what each student did and if they knew how to write the code I wanted to see on the exam. Let’s dive in.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 14, 2023

What is a portfolio? They think about what each piece signifies, what they learned from it, and how it relates to their overall educational goals. This reflective practice develops metacognitive skills, enabling students to think about their own thinking and learning.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The 21st-century classroom is a dynamic, ever-evolving space where cutting-edge technologies, like artificial intelligence (AI), are pushing us all to rethink what students need to learn and how that learning can best be structured to prepare them for the future. Understand the value of creativity.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 21, 2018

Metacognitive Supports: Goal Setting , Self-Instructions , Self-Monitoring , and Self-Reinforcement. What makes SRSD so powerful and effective is the combination of writing and self-regulation strategies, which we call metacognitive supports. Identifying as Confident Writers.

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