Designing Metacognitive Activities
By Xiaodong Lin
In Lin’s article, the author does a great job of describing ways to design effective metacognitive activities. The descussions are organized around two approaches to supporting metacognition. Strategy training and the creation of a supportive social environment for metacognition are the important approaches. What was especially interesting was that metacognitive activities are not simply as domain skills, but rather as habits of minds for developing a balanced cognitively and socially competent learner.
According to Lin’s explanation and examples of activities, I realized that teacher is very important in fostering student engagement in different roles.
Through different technologies, such as computers, videos, or internet searching, can provide useful and effective scaffolds for reflection by displaying, prompting, and modeling what their own or what other’s learning. Teachers can have more creation and ideas to design more interesting and different activities for students to have more opportunities to develop knowledge about the self-as-learner, to indentify learning goals and to pursue their personal interests in meaningful ways. Therefore, metacognitive activities is not just ways to build knowledge for students but it is important in developing cognitively and socially competent learners.
By Xiaodong Lin
In Lin’s article, the author does a great job of describing ways to design effective metacognitive activities. The descussions are organized around two approaches to supporting metacognition. Strategy training and the creation of a supportive social environment for metacognition are the important approaches. What was especially interesting was that metacognitive activities are not simply as domain skills, but rather as habits of minds for developing a balanced cognitively and socially competent learner.
According to Lin’s explanation and examples of activities, I realized that teacher is very important in fostering student engagement in different roles.
Through different technologies, such as computers, videos, or internet searching, can provide useful and effective scaffolds for reflection by displaying, prompting, and modeling what their own or what other’s learning. Teachers can have more creation and ideas to design more interesting and different activities for students to have more opportunities to develop knowledge about the self-as-learner, to indentify learning goals and to pursue their personal interests in meaningful ways. Therefore, metacognitive activities is not just ways to build knowledge for students but it is important in developing cognitively and socially competent learners.
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