Using Web Tools to Teach Metacognition
Perry Samson from University of Michigan tries to use web tools to help students learn metacognition while they are taking class notes in '
LectureTools' and reading their text books in '
XamPREP'. Following you can see a Screen shot from one pane of LectureTools showing (A) note-taking area, (B) question-submission button, (C) draw-on the instructor slide and (D) graph of students' self-assessment of "confidence" in understanding.
Following you can see the screen shot from XamPREP showing presentation of one of the questions in a pre-lecture quiz.
The main features of XamPREP are:
- strongly encourages students to review germane concepts before lecture,
- focuses their reading on to the areas of the text that I consider particularly important.
To know more about these tools, read the whole article
here.
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