Annotated Bibliography: Growing Your Mind

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Hayfaa Khoudari

Student ID: M00556107

Item 1: Annotated Bibliography

Date accessed: 25 September, 2015

1. Growing Your Mind - https://www.khanacademy.org/youcanlearnanything

In this video it talks about how our intelligence can be changed and explains that the way to grow it is to do things that we struggle with. Researchers have taught us that our brains grow the most when we challenge our brains by struggling with something because it would then come back stronger. It compares our brains with muscles and tells us that the way to grow our brain is not to focus on things that are easy for us to do but to focus on the things that we struggle with. Research shows that our brains grow the most when we get a question wrong then review

The key to becoming successful is our ability to teach ourselves to learn how to learn about a subject. While attending an educational facility to learn is good and can be important it is not the best method to acquiring our knowledge since we can always gain the knowledge ourselves rather than taking it from someone else. When you teach yourself something you are giving yourself the ability to do anything you want so once you have taught yourself something you are able to teach it to others what you have learnt.

2 - Learning to Learn - http://simpleprogrammer.com/2012/09/23/learning-to-learn

Learning to learn is important because while learning in a educational facility is good it can prove to not be very efficient. The process of learning is completely up to the individual and will only work if the student takes responsibility for their own learning. Each individual has their own style of learning and it is important for them to learn the many other learning styles they can have. Because education is so important and it can be expensive and a waste of time acquiring it we must learn how to learn by teaching ourselves what we need to know before being able to teach it to others.

3 - How to do it -

Metacognition is referred to as 'learning about learning' or as 'knowing how you learn'. The DfES Thinking Skills glossary helpfully defines metacognition as strategies to take on such as "The process of planning, assessing, and monitoring one's own thinking" and "thinking about thinking in order to develop understanding or self-regulation”.

Some of the metacognitive strategies are that learners become aware that their cognition - their ability to comprehend something - has failed them, for example, not being able to understand some textual information or a mathematical formula, and that they have work to do to make sense of it. The metacognitive act, then, would be interpreted as the learner's realisation, firstly, that there are limitations on their knowledge to complete a task, and, secondly, that they possess strategies for rectifying that situation.

Metacognition could be a helpful learning tool to a person if the person has a positive approach to learning. If they have a negative approach to learning then they would not find metacognition a helpful learning