Lesson 1: Learning to be a better learner

Metacognition
- "thinking about thinking"
- awareness that it comes to your scope of a specific topic or the skills the you
normally used"

Metacognition
1. Self-Appraisal - what is the capabilities, capacities, and knowledge of a person
2. Self-Management - the different mental processes that a person used in order for
them to accomplish things.

Metacognitive Knowledge - what you know about how you think

Metacognition Knowledge - how you adjus your thinking processes to help you learn
better

METACOGNITIVE KNOWLEDGE
several variables:
1. Personal variable - evaluation of your strengths and weaknesses in learning ex.
a person prefers to watch a video to learn, or some read books. A strategy for them
to learn.

2. Task Variable - what an individual know or what they think about the nature of
the task, as well sa the strategiesthe task requires. Trying to understanding the
nature of the speicific tasks to perform better.
ex. using images to somehow convey what it wants to convey, infographics, etc.

3. Strategy Variable - refers to what strategies or skills an person already have

in order to accomplish a task.

Self-Assessment - a person must know his/her strengths and weaknesses

Knowing your limit - the scope and limitations of your resources so that you can
work with what you have at the moment and look forways to cope with other
insecurities.

Modifying your approach -

Skimming
- browsing over a material and keeping an eye on keywords, phrases, or sentences.
it is also about knowing

Rehearsing
- to make a personal interpretation or summary of the learning experience

Self test
- trying ot test your comprehension of your learning experience or the skills you
have acquired during learning