Metacognition

Ways to Foster Metacognition:

1. Activate background knowledge
2. Discuss learning with students
3. Have students identify their type of intelligence
4. Give students tools to construct their own learning
5. Control and regulate activities

Prezi Presentation Homework:

1. Automaticity - the ability to do things unconsciously, usually related with repetition. It's done over time and becomes something easy to do, which represents that the activity was learned.
b.  Cognitive Load - excessive amount of content given to the students, which results in the brain working harder to process all the information given.

2. How do we develop automaticity?
-  We can use drilling techniques which can help make learning more permanent.

3. Create an example of how teachers can change the amount of "extraneous cognitive load" on an assignment.
- Applying strategies or aids that help to explain the content clearly without adding additional information that is not relevant to the students. One example is the use of material or resources, in other words the use of images or videos to explain a certain content that results in a meaningful learning experience.

4) When have you felt that you had a "full" cognitive load?
In classes where we have to read lot of texts that have lots of information that is not relevant.
For example in a text with 20 pages of content only 7 are useful.