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Definition: Metacognition

Kapp Notes

The short definition of Metacognition is "Thinking about Thinking." Here are some more definitions from a variety of sources. Here is the Wikipedia definition of metacognition. 2008) Instructor's scaffolding in support of student's metacognition through a teacher education online course: A case study. Dominowski,R.

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Stats Review from 2008

Experiencing eLearning

I’ve been blogging for just over 2 years now; my first posts were on December 26, 2008. Like many bloggers, I definitely had a slow start: only 44 views in all of January 2007. I’m still quite pleased with the growth I saw in 2008 over my first year of blogging. 2008: 61062. time more views in 2008.

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Challenges 2008

Tony Karrer

This was a great exercise and the fact that I had not considered my big challenges for 2008 made it harder to do my Conference Planning for ASTD TechKnowledge 2008. In terms of accelerating learning, blogging is definitely the best for me. Of course, I need to break this down and think through this in more detail.

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Thinking about Gamification in Learning and Instruction

Kapp Notes

The first part of the chapter is an attempt to identify the key elements in the definition of gamification. Ironically, there is a good deal of consensus on the high level definition but, as they say, the devil is in the details. Here is a rough draft of the introduction of a chapter I am writing for a book. Origin of Term.

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Daily Bookmarks 08/09/2008

Experiencing eLearning

The NCTE Definition of 21st-Century Literacies. NCTE’s literacies for the 21st century, including technology, problem-solving, information literacy, multimedia, and ethics. tags: 21stcenturyskills , informationliteracy , ethics , problemsolving , education , multimedia.

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Employee Engagement: Define Your Terms

The Performance Improvement Blog

That might be the case, but without a shared definition of employee engagement, we can’t agree on what can be done about it, if anything. Different definitions of employee engagement are used in other studies. Sharlyn Lauby, of HR Bartender, offers this as an attempt at an all-inclusive definition: . See more at: [link].

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Daily Bookmarks 08/17/2008

Experiencing eLearning

Rather than going for a fixed definition within the framework of a learning theory, the author argues that connectivism is an emerging concept best understood by looking at how it connects to other ideas and theories. &#. tags: telecommuting , career , productivity. x28’s new Blog » Blog Archive » My take on Connectivism.

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