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Meta-Learning

Metacognition and Self-Regulated Learning

Meta-learning is a branch of metacognition concerned with learning about one's own learning and learning processes. The term comes from the meta prefix's modern meaning of an abstract recursion, an X about X, in the same sense it carries in metaknowledge, metamemory and meta-emotion, distinguishing this educational and psychological concept from the separate use of meta-learning in computer science.

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Meta learning tasks would provide students with the opportunity to better understand their thinking processes in order to devise custom learning strategies. 2
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How can meta-learning tasks help students?

They build self-awareness so students can devise their own strategies.

Students need feedback in order to reflect on their learning, strengths and weaknesses. Meta-learning tasks aim to make students more proactive and effective learners by developing self-awareness, and they give students the chance to understand their own thinking processes so they can devise custom learning strategies.
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1. Meta-learning (Wikipedia)
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2. Wikipedia: Meta-learning
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    Meta learning tasks would provide students with the opportunity to better understand their thinking processes in order to devise custom learning strategies.
  • lead section
    Meta-learning is a branch of metacognition concerned with learning about one's own learning and learning processes.
  • In Group: Metacognition and Self-Regulated Learning Concepts, Lead
    Meta-learning is a branch of metacognition concerned with learning about one's own learning and learning processes.
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