Hello! I hope you are doing well.
If you missed my posts from either of the last couple of weeks, I shared a couple of recent links to my writing:
An article I wrote on cramming for The Conversation – here.
A book extract on desirable difficulties for MindShift – here.
Last time I also promised to share information about my recent talk at researchED Aberdeen. The purpose of the talk was to explain some simple, easy to use metacognition strategies that teachers can start to use straight away.
There were three main messages in the talk as a whole:
Metacognition is important because students tend to misjudge learning
There are various metacognitive techniques that we can build in to teaching (I cover seven in particular).
More broadly, there is a strong argument for a metacognitive approach to teaching.
I’ve now shared the slides, and you can find them below:
The screenshot with the table near the end comes from my forthcoming book, Metacognition and Study Skills (link: UK | España | USA).
By the way, you can find a list of all my publications and talks on my website (there is also a contact form):
https://www.jonathanfirth.co.uk/publications
I love it when subscribers to these updates come along to hear me speak – it’s a great chance to meet and share ideas. My next few talks are as follows:
EARLI, Sig 12 (Writing), Paris: Writing-to-Learn for Metacognition and Transfer among Student Teachers
Festival of Education, near London: Creativity: Applications and Myths
ReTraInED, Madrid: A Cognitive Science Approach to Creativity
…and then maybe a talk on memory/metacognition in the USA later in the year. We’ll see!
All the best for the coming week,
Jonathan
Please note that my slides and similar materials are used under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license. This means you can use or adapt them with attribution for non-commercial purposes. If you wish to use my materials for other purposes, feel free to get in touch.