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Higher Order Thinking Blog Prompts
(Due October 13th, comments due October 16th)
Blog Post 1 (Deep Reading)
•Discuss one or more questions or confusions that you have from reading the module (on METACOGNITION and CRITICAL THINKING.... sorry for the mistake before). You should comment on these within others' posts.
-Describe in detail how you could involve metacognitive knowledge and regulation (such as self interrogation or theory of mind) while teaching within your content area. Metacognition in music and art education, for example, should look very different from reading comprehension strategies.
•Critical thinking involves primarily the control of information, the ‘analysis, synthesis, and evaluation’ of information to solve a problem or reach a goal. Metacognition involves the control of thinking, or monitoring and evaluation of thinking and learning strategies. Which do you feel is more relevant to your content area? Why? Give an example if possible.
Blog Post 2 (Activity)
This is a video made by a friend of mine (her name is Jenna) who is an instructor of one of the other sections of Educational Psychology. She's describing some specific metacognitive strategies she uses while reading for her classes. I'd like you to watch this video and write about whether any strategies like these have helped you in regulating your own thinking/studying in the past and describe which metacognitive strategies are MOST effective for you (and describe why that might be, using your knowledge from the book).
Creativity
Creativity Blog Prompts
Due October 20th, comments due October 23rd
Blog Post 1 (Creativity will not be on the midterm, but I do want you to think about it)
- List a question, confusion, or something that surprised you about the Creativity/Gifted chapter.
- How is creativity a form of higher order thinking? What would creativity look like in your content area? Think about how you might encourage or assess creativity....
