Superintelligence
Metacognition: This Is Why Students Are Failing And What You Can Do About It
…this can make the difference between people who achieve and people who have the potential to achieve, but don’t.
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16 min readDec 11, 2019
“Actively self-reflecting on the approaches that you are taking fosters a strategic stance that is really important in life. Strategic thinking distinguishes between people of comparable ability and effort. This can make the difference between people who achieve and people who have the potential to achieve, but don’t.” — Patricia Chen.
Keywords and ideas
- Inactive student → uses ineffective learning strategies;
- Active student → uses effective learning strategies;
- School-centered learning → students “isolate” themselves to teacher-given information and schoolbooks rather than also utilizing the internet → worsens learning;
- Student-centered learning → students know how set up goals, find information, learn that information, and know when something brings them further or closer to their set up goals → promotes student metacognition;
- Students comparing their time spent on each task → enhances student metacognition;
