As the book discusses, I find it very true about really tuning in and finding out who you are as a learner. The metacognitive approach believes that the more you know about yourself the better you can learn as a student and throughout life. Finding out how you learn best could simply be done through surveys or trial and error like it has for me. I have learned that I learn best by flash cards and written notes more so than online work. With this being said, I have always been skeptical of online work because I struggle to teach myself. Throughout this course, I will stay on top of my stuff and work ahead so that if any problems arise I will be able to address them quickly.
After looking over the research reviewers posts, I have chosen the article links from my group, group 2 and group 4’s post. The student in my group posted a link to an article that explained how using flashcards helps you transfer material to learn better. I believe this is true and I am trying to use these more to help me learn better before tests. Memorization effects many students and causes many people to not be able to recall specific information in the future. This is an issue that needs to be addressed and corrected for the upcoming generation. Group 4’s research was also very interesting. After reading the article they shared, I feel like I can relate to it very much. Math has always been my worst subject and to hear that people are wanting to change how math is being taught would help tremendously in my opinion. I normally would go through and just memorize formulas for the test like the article stated that most people do. I took the GRE this past year and I found the math extremely difficult because of this reason and I had such a hard time recalling all the formulas back. I think with what this article is wanting to suggest would be very beneficial and useful for the generation to come.
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