reducing our personal impact by considering the emissions implications of our every action, switching to
accredited Green Power, drying clothes on the line, getting on a bike, installing a gas-boosted solar hot-water system and
claiming the rebate, working from home, purchasing local fresh foods, using the broom to sweep and not a blower, setting
thermostats as close to room temperature as possible, composting food scraps and garden waste, turning off appliances at
the power point rather than using stand-by, using post-consumer recycled paper in the office and the toilet, teleconferencing
instead of meeting, turning lights off, using safe alternatives to hazardous chemicals, fully loading clothes washers before
running a cycle, buying only as much food as we use, replacing burnt-out incandescent and halogen lights with long-life
fluorescent lamps, car pooling, using natural light as much as possible, buying secondhand or recycled, using the lowest
fuel-use car as possible, printing out only when necessary and using both sides of the paper, choosing products in minimal
packaging, purchasing the right-sized high energy star rating appliances, taking the train or bus
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Importance of Metacognition for life success
Metacognition has applications for many arenas of school success. The essence of metacognition is awareness of one's cognitive processes, as well as an ability to develop a plan for achieving a goal and evaluating one's effectiveness of reaching that goal.
In science or mathematics, metacognition looks like planning strategies to use on a word problem or to design an experiment to isolate a given element. Additionally, metacognition means being able to evaluate several different strategies used in order to determine which ones worked, and which ones might be the best to use in a similar situation in the future.
Metacognition is quite possibly one of the most valuable life skills as well as academic skills. Ideally, a new employee may have to be corrected on a procedure once or twice, but after that the boss will hope that s/he will have the awareness to catch and correct that mistake independently. An employee with weak metacognition must continually be corrected externally, which is a source of frustration for employer and employee alike! On a more personal note, most people know someone (or are someone!) who continues to make the same mistake over and over again in his or her personal life, be it in the area of romance, family relationships, or job choice.
This person continually makes the same sort of bad choice, each time thinking "This time will be different". In fact, we often say of such a person "will they never learn?" Such a person has weak metacognition, and may indeed have some other circumstance (personal insecurity, uncontrolled anger, etc.) which prevents metacognition from occurring in that particular area of his or her life. Read more about Metaconition:
http://www.carillongroup.com.au/resources/metaconition.html
Metacognition has applications for many arenas of school success. The essence of metacognition is awareness of one's cognitive processes, as well as an ability to develop a plan for achieving a goal and evaluating one's effectiveness of reaching that goal.
In science or mathematics, metacognition looks like planning strategies to use on a word problem or to design an experiment to isolate a given element. Additionally, metacognition means being able to evaluate several different strategies used in order to determine which ones worked, and which ones might be the best to use in a similar situation in the future.
Metacognition is quite possibly one of the most valuable life skills as well as academic skills. Ideally, a new employee may have to be corrected on a procedure once or twice, but after that the boss will hope that s/he will have the awareness to catch and correct that mistake independently. An employee with weak metacognition must continually be corrected externally, which is a source of frustration for employer and employee alike! On a more personal note, most people know someone (or are someone!) who continues to make the same mistake over and over again in his or her personal life, be it in the area of romance, family relationships, or job choice.
This person continually makes the same sort of bad choice, each time thinking "This time will be different". In fact, we often say of such a person "will they never learn?" Such a person has weak metacognition, and may indeed have some other circumstance (personal insecurity, uncontrolled anger, etc.) which prevents metacognition from occurring in that particular area of his or her life. Read more about Metaconition:
http://www.carillongroup.com.au/resources/metaconition.html
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