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LESSON 1:

LEARNING TO
BE A BETTER
LEARNER
Objectives:
Enumerate various
metacognition and studying
techniques;

Explain how learning occurs;


and
Homo Sapiens
Or the “wise man”.
Anatomically modern humans
share similar traits as the
humans found on Earth today.
They have lighter skeletons,
larger brains, and weaker jaws.
Metacognition
Is commonly defined as “ thinking
about thinking”.

It is the awareness of the scope


and limitations of your current
knowledge and skills.
Metacognition
Due to this awareness,
metacognition enables the person
to adapt their existing knowledge
and skills to approach a learning
task, seeking for the optimum result
of the learning experience.
Metacognition
Is also not limited to the thinking
process of the individual.

It also includes keeping one’s


emotions and motivations while
learning in check.
Metacognition
Has two aspects:

 Self-appraisal
Is your personal reflection on
your knowledge and capabilities.
Metacognition
Has two aspects:

 Self-management
is the mental processes that
you employ using what you have in
planning and adapting to
successfully learn or accomplish a
certain task.
Elements of Metacognition
 Metacognitive Knowledge
What you know about how you
think.

 Metacognition Regulation
How you adjust your thinking
processes to help you learn better.
Metacognitive Knowledge

 Have several variables that


affect how you know or
assess yourself as a thinker.
Metacognitive Knowledge

 Personal Variable
Is your evaluation of your
strengths and weaknesses in
learning.
Metacognitive Knowledge

 Task Variable
Is what you know or what
you think about the nature of
the task as well as strategies
the task requires.
Metacognitive Knowledge

 Strategy Variable
Refers to what strategies
or skills you already have in
dealing with certain tasks.
Skills that might help you with
exercising metacognition:
 Knowing your limits.
Knowing your limits also looks at
the scope and limitations of your
resources so that you can work with
what you have at the moment and look
for ways to cope with other
necessities.
Skills that might help you with
exercising metacognition:
 Modifying your approach.
It begins with the recognition
that your strategy is not appropriate
with the task and/or that you are
not comprehending the learning
experience successfully.
Skills that might help you with
exercising metacognition:
 Skimming.
Is basically browsing over a
material and keeping an eye on
keywords, phrases, or sentences.
Skills that might help you with
exercising metacognition:
 Rehearsing.
This is not just repeatedly
talking, writing, and/or doing what
you have learned but also trying to
make a personal interpretation of the
summary of the learning experience.
Skills that might help you with
exercising metacognition:
 Self-test.
This is trying to test your
comprehension of your learning
experience or the skills that you have
acquired during learning.
Types of Metacognitive Learners
and Other Strategies
 “Tacit” Learners
Learners who are unaware of
their metacognitive processes
although they know the extent of
their knowledge.
Types of Metacognitive Learners
and Other Strategies
 “Aware” Learners
Learners who are aware of
some of their metacognitive
strategies but use techniques that
are not always planned.
Types of Metacognitive Learners
and Other Strategies
 “Strategic” Learners
Learners who strategize and
plan their course of action toward a
learning experience.
Types of Metacognitive Learners
and Other Strategies
 “Reflective” Learners
Learners who reflect on their
thinking while they are using the
strategies and will adapt their
metacognitive skills depending on
the situation.
Tips that you can use in
studying
 Make an outline of the things that
you want to learn, the things that
you are reading/doing, and/or the
things that you remember.
 Break down the task in smaller
and more manageable details.
Tips that you can use in
studying
 Integrate variation in your schedule
and learning experience.
 Incubate your ideas.
 Taking down, Summarizing, and
Revising Notes
 You should also engage with what you
have learned.

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