What is cognition?

"Cognition is "the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses." It encompasses processes such as knowledge, attention, memory and working memory, judgment and evaluation, reasoning and "computation", problem solving and decision making, comprehension and production of language, etc. Human cognition is conscious and unconscious, concrete or abstract, as well as intuitive (like knowledge of a language) and conceptual (like a model of a language). Cognitive processes use existing knowledge and generate new knowledge.The processes are analyzed from different perspectives within different contexts, notably in the fields of linguistics, anesthesia, neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology, education, philosophy, anthropology, biology, systemics, logic, and computer science. These and other different approaches to the analysis of cognition are synthesised in the developing field of cognitive science, a progressively autonomous academic discipline. Within psychology and philosophy, the concept of cognition is closely related to abstract concepts such as mind and intelligence. It encompasses the mental functions, mental processes (thoughts), and states of intelligent entities (humans, collaborative groups, human organizations, highly autonomous machines, and artificial intelligences)"

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2. Cognition @ Science Daily
3. A Brief Guide to Embodied Cognition: Why You Are Not Your Brain - Scientific American Blog Network
4. Exclusive: Elevated CO2 Levels Directly Affect Human Cognition, New Harvard Study Shows | ThinkProgress
5. What Effective Schools Do: Stretching the cognitive limits on achievement : Education Next
6. Cognition - definition of cognition by The Free Dictionary
7. Cognition - ScienceDirect.com
8. Cognition | Definition of Cognition by Merriam-Webster
9. Cognition | Psychology Today
10. Cognition - Journal - Elsevier

What is Metacognition?

"Metacognition is "cognition about cognition", "thinking about thinking", or "knowing about knowing". It comes from the root word "meta", meaning beyond.It can take many forms; it includes knowledge about when and how to use particular strategies for learning or for problem solving.There are generally two components of metacognition: knowledge about cognition, and regulation of cognition.Metamemory, defined as knowing about memory and mnemonic strategies, is an especially important form of metacognition.Differences in metacognitive processing across cultures have not been widely studied, but could provide better outcomes in cross-cultural learning between teachers and students."
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2. Metacognition: An Overview
3. Fact Sheet: Metacognitive Processes | Teaching Excellence in Adult Literacy (TEAL)
4. Metacognition: The Gift That Keeps Giving | Edutopia
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6. Metacognition | Define Metacognition at Dictionary.com
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8. K-8 Metacognitive Strategies - Benchmark Education Storefront
9. Metacognition: Nurturing Self-Awareness in the Classroom | Edutopia
10. Brief Intro to Metacognition - YouTube
11. Metacognition: Learning about Learning - YouTube
12. A Focus on Teaching: Metacognition - YouTube
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Learning Patterns and Writing @ Choices Portal

"The Let Me Learn Process posits that the interface through which the stimuli pass consists of filters which sift the stimuli as they pass from the brain to the mind. The result of this sifting action yields functions hereafter referred to as Patterns of operation or Patterns. These Patterns are labeled Sequence, Precision, Technical Reasoning, and Confluence based upon a factor analysis of their discrete operations.

While these Patterns are universal across race, gender, and ethnicity, their make-up and use is very person-specific (Johnston & Dainton, 2005).  Let Me Learn refers to this oxymoron as our “universal, person-specific patterns.” The point that this emphasizes is that all learners use all four Pattern filters but to varying degrees. The degree to which we use each of these filters is measured by how each Pattern facilitates or limits the stimuli’s entry into the mind. For example, a wide-open Pattern filter allows large amounts of specific stimuli to pass into the mind’s translation and storage mechanism. However, a tightly closed Pattern filter may reject stimuli, seeking to avoid having to cope with it.

Research indicates that most of us do not use all Patterns with equal comfort and naturalness (Johnston, 1994).We may use one or more of them to the maximum amount, one or more of them as needed--and we may do our best to avoid one or more of them. The LML Process refers to these levels of use as: Use First, Use As Needed, and Avoid. Whatever the degree to which these Patterns operate within each of us, the bottom line is the Patterns work as an internal team of processeswhen we engage in learning."
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