Week seven diary

This week a fourth student (Er) joined our class. We had a great conversation about cognition and metacognition on Tuesday. I don't know if it was having an additional voice in the conversation or simply the topic, but it seemed like we all had more to say than we usually do and we were able to discuss the readings for almost the full two hours rather than ending early as we have in previous weeks.

The students seem to finally be grasping the degree of self-monitoring that is necessary to achieve success in self-directed learning.  A few of them seem to be struggling with actually putting this self-monitoring into practice, perhaps because it clashes with their preferred learning styles or aptitudes.