Re: [Phys-l] learning, judgment, self-assessment, etc.

["Dan L. MacIsaac" <danmacisaac@mac.com>]

Not sure if these are student-appropriate but they're quite readable and definitely teacher-appropriate, and extend beyond physics.

Donald Schon's books might work:
The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think In Action
Educating the Reflective Practitioner: Toward a New Design for Teaching and Learning in the Professions

or Jim Zull's:
The Art of Changing the Brain: Enriching the Practice of Teaching by Exploring the Biology of Learning

Watching the 8min Derek Muller video from from veritasium.com site discussing the Khan Academy videos and the ubiquity of dreadful judgement by people in monitoring their own learning  is also a helpful way to start thinking about the problem:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVtCO84MDj8&feature=player_embedded

Dan M

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On May 22, 2011, at 9:56 AM, Jeffrey Schnick wrote:

> Suppose you had the option of contributing to a summer reading list for incoming freshmen and although the list is for all students, not just science majors, you wanted to take advantage of it to help lay the groundwork for implementing meta-cognition in your introductory physics courses.  What readings would you assign?
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