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History of Learning How to Learn

Learning How to Learn has a long history.  It formally began with the work of John Flavell, a developmental psychologist and student of Piaget.  Flavell used the word “metacognition”  to describe what learners did when they “tuned into” their own learning.  Since then a variety of terms have been used to describe the ways in which learners take charge of their own learning:  self-directed, independent, autonomous, self-regulated…

Over this nearly 35 year period, interest in Learning How to Learn has drawn the attention of teachers at every level–preschool through adult life long learning, in every discipline, across a number of teaching philosophies, and in a variety of media.

See, for example,

Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology?

V34(2) Spring /printemps, 2008   Elizabeth Murphy

A framework for identifying and promoting
metacognitive knowledge and control in online discussants

 

“According to the learner-centered approach, therole of the teacher is optimally as a facilitator, advisor, tutor or coach. The role of learners is as self-regulating, independent, active and engaged constructors of knowledge. Self-regulation requires that learners proactively engage in metacognitive (Mc) processes (Zimmerman & Schunk, 1989) that involve reflecting on and analyzing one’s own thinking (Flavell, 1976).”

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Themes

I will be sharing information and ideas on the following Topics on my “Learn to Learn” blog.

  1. What does it mean to learn?
  2. What is worth learning?
  3. Learner Stories
  4. Frameworks/Approaches (Historic and Contemporary)
  5. Learning Process(es)
  6. The role of Context
  7. Research

 

 

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On the Road to Learning

I’m just getting started with this blog, and I already know that I have a lot to learn.  I’m planning to reach at least a middle school level of blogging expertise!  Perhaps my experience at creating wikis will be helpful.

I’m passionate about “learning how to learn” and hope to create/revise a wiki that will be useful to middle school teachers.  I started  a “Learning How to Learn” wiki (Explorience1) last year as part of Wiki Camp and will be working on revising it this year.

My background includes student teacher supervision, learning specialist,  speech/language pathologist, developmental psychologist, classroom researcher.

I’d love to have suggestions from classroom teachers and learning specialists:

What are your looking for?

What suggestions to you have?

How do your students talk about learning?  What do they struggle with as learners?

Has you school instituted any “learning how to learn” (self-directed learning, personalized learning, self-regulated learning, etc.) courses, workshops, classes?

How do your struggling learners “learn how to learn?”

 

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Hello world!

Welcome to your brand new blog at Edublogs.

Thank you!

 

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