Return-Path: <nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id eB1Hrh906226; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 12:53:43 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 12:53:43 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <001101c05bbf$799d3180$13ae35d8@-denton> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Denton Kurtz" <dkurtz@learningdisabilities.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-LD:3300] Re: Instruction for LBLD - more ?? for Denton X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; Status: O Content-Length: 1508 Lines: 39 Tom, I have been metacogniting re: your definition of metacognitive and get from whence you come. Would you have a reference or references on the word metacognitive, meta-cognitive, metacognition, etc. Would want to add that determining how a person thinks or doesn't think directs us to training various successful models of thinking so that applied functioning will improve. Denton -----Original Message----- From: woods@ncia.net <woods@ncia.net> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov> Date: Friday, December 01, 2000 12:06 AM Subject: [NIFL-LD:3299] Re: Instruction for LBLD - more ?? for Denton >Thanks for the clarification, Denton, about metacognition. I think we are >basically in agreement with perhaps a slight difference in semantics. Let me >see if I can explain my thinking (metacognitively, of course!). > >Metacognitive practices make us consiously aware of thought processes that >we may not have been aware that we were doing before, or that we weren't >applying before. Asking and answering the question, "what do I do when I >come to a word I don't know," is an example of a metacognitive question. To >ask the question, it has to be conscious; we have to be aware of it. > >Granted, we hope that the strategies a learner develops become automatic and >thus, perhaps, unsconscious. But I guess I'd argue (and this is the semantic >point) that once it becomes automatic, it ceases to be metacognitive because >you don't have to think about it anymore. > >Tom > > >
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