The Brain
A story to tell is a story to know. The start of it all, is thinking about one’s thinking. Its a process called, Metacognition. It refers to the “processes used to plan, monitor, and assess one’s understanding and performance.” Psychologists Bransford, Brown, & Cocking explain that Metacognitive practices increases students’ abilities to transfer or adapt their learning to new contexts and task. Students must know different kinds of strategies for learning, thinking, and problem solving. We humans use this term to understand how to learn something new and to be aware of how someone learns it.
Visual Analysis:
For my final project, I wanted to compare how test taking affects the human brain and how we interoperate the things we learn from it. I had created a word cloud to visualize what humans think about when learning a new concept from the web or even in a classroom environment. It shows the strategies and concepts from learning a new tool. It is a way to focus on improving “one’s thinking and learning and oneself as a thinker and learner.” The word cloud, is created from a background piece about metacognition. The cloud that is created suggest that the original text is very important to understanding that there are different ways that people learn and ways to put metacognition into practice. The size and angle of the words tell a story. A story about someone who has a learning disability; that is challenged everyday to learn new strategies and to understand concepts so that they are able to preform well by test-taking. The character of the language is to understand how someone can be challenged by such learning abilities. Finding approachable ways to help someone’s knowledge is another way to a door opening. “A key element is recognizing the limit of one’s knowledge or ability and then figuring out how to expand that knowledge or extend the ability.” The brain is a mystery to learning how someone’s knowledge can play an effect on their strengths and weaknesses. With this being said, it is a journey to improving someone’s metacognition.
Works Cited:
- Bransford, John D., Brown Ann L., and Cocking Rodney R. (2000). How people learn: Brain, mind, experience, and school. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.
