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The 3 Components of Metacognition

KnowledgeOne

Metacognition can be summarized as the ability to reflect on one’s cognitive processes, allowing us to identify our mistakes and successes, understand their origin, and adjust our goals. About the cognitive strategies: what we know about the most effective methods for carrying out an activity. Are we really good at multitasking?

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Metacognition in 10 points

KnowledgeOne

For Flavell, metacognition “refers to one’s knowledge concerning one’s own cognitive processes or anything related to them. “Cognition” refers to all the processes related to our mental faculties: attention, reasoning, memorization, conceptualization, etc. Are we really good at multitasking?

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Personal processing

Clark Quinn

I was thinking about a talk on mobile I’m going to be giving, and realized that mobile is really about personal processing. It’s for personal use. Our brains work in active and reflective modes, and our cognitive augment will similarly complement those needs. And that’s a good thing, I think.

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4 Ways to Boost Attention Intelligence (AQ) in the Workplace

KnowledgeCity

Researchers have identified cognitive and environmental control as being the two primary drivers for AQ. The prefrontal cortex is primarily responsible for cognitive control. However, the amount a person attempts to multitask does have an effect on cognitive control. Just try to incorporate some balance.

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The Learning and Forgetting Curve: How to Make eLearning Memorable

TalentLMS

Multitasking with techno-stimulators: mobile phones, tablets, i-tunes and you get the drift. Another common and deceptively heroic habit, that we all are so proud of, is multitasking. But I thought multitasking got things done faster! Prevent cognitive overload by presenting information in “chunks”. Tell us something new.

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Twitter’s Impact on Your Brain-Same as Bilingualism

Kapp Notes

Studies on infant brains have shown that knowledge retention is only possible when accompanied with personal interaction or activity, but this becomes even more important as people get older. Bilingual people aren’t cognitively smarter, but they are more cognitively flexible,” she added.

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A Voice for Learning? Exploring the Pros and Cons of Having Audio Narration in eLearning

IT Training Department Blog

The advantage is as follows: …incoming information being split across two separate cognitive channels – words in the auditory channel and picture in the visual channel – rather than concentrating both words (as on-screen text) and pictures in the visual channel. This is the same reason multitasking doesn’t work.

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