Sunday, January 29,2017
WEEK 2:
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The Reading for this week share interesting information
about Effectiveness of the Integration of ICT Tools and Activities to Foster
Awareness as the First Stage to Reach Learning Autonomy.
Does metacognition really work?
Something I learned from this article and that every teacher
should know was metacognition. The metacognitive process takes place along with
thinking processes. This means that the mind becomes aware of itself.
Metacognition has to do with students’ awareness of their own cognitive
processes and the regulation of these processes in order to reach a specific
goal so that a reasonable assessment can be made about present and future
performance. However, making our
students aware of their own cognitive process seems to be a complex problem.it
is even more difficult if students do not care about going to school. In some
cases students see education just a way of wasting their time because they do
not find it interesting or really important; the metacognition is kind of far.
On the other hand, the use of CALL in the classroom required that
students become independent, self-motivated and self-evaluating. This innovation required a syllabus oriented
to improve students´ proficiency and the role of the teacher is critical in
order to offer accompaniment, support and preparation to avoid any distractor
students have while using resources provided by open content creators and
online networks.
Something that made me read more about was the experiment
developed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the metacognitive in students. In this project, students firstly were asked
to identify their wish focus on base of their weaknesses or interest. Also,
they were given instructions about how to develop a proficient writing and how
to correct themselves without the assessment of a teacher. I would like to
develop an experiment like this because it could help students to be aware of their
own process of learning. This in our country could become an important way to help
those students who consider drop school at early grades. With this program they
could be able to overcome their learning problems and become conscious of their
reality. And it is important to highlight that students who are aware of their
process of learning become a benefit for their families and the country.
Hello Wilfredo. I would like to add that leading or guiding a Metacognitive Approach should be a big challenge to any teacher but it seems to also be an opportunity help and improve the students skills in an integral way. That is why we need to become aware of our learning process first, so that we will incorporate activities which have the same goal for our students too. Finally, even when ICT tools were incorporated I believe that our focus should be to mantain the education quality, where the content and tools work together to achieve learners' goals.
ReplyDeleteHello Wilfredo. Excellent log! Continue writing like this please.
ReplyDeleteLu, excellent comment too. Definitely, it's a challenge to develop an inner understanding of our own processes. Yet, it is the first steps to be able to train our students in such strategies.
Good job to both!