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Metacognition Concept Map

I've been referencing and writing about metacognition lately, specifically in regard to cognitive hygiene in the face of ai use. I have been interested in the subject for close to two decades because of its relationship to attention training in the age of social media. During that time I created this concept map. The link provides access to a concept map with live links -- click on the small document icons to access sources. I've also seen references recently to the activity of making concept maps as a metacognition exercise. It forces thinking about the connections between ideas, and visualizes thinking in two dimensions -- three if you include click-throughs to source documents:

The purpose of this innovation paper is to report an application of concept mapping (1) to facilitate metacognition steps in students, and (2) to identify the muddiest points students struggle with, during both in-person and online instruction of a problem-solving-based biomedical engineering course. This innovation article also looks at the usefulness of concept mapping through instructor and student perceptions and students’ class performance.