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Additional Content

Cognition in the Content Areas

Web Links

Metacognition
http://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/col/cogsys/metacogn.html
This website defines metacognition and identifies strategies for developing metacognitive behaviors.

Three Basic Elements Of Metacognition
http://www.ncrel.org/skrs/areas/issues/students/learning/lr1metn.htm
This website discusses three basic elements of metacognition: developing a plan, maintaining/monitoring the plan, and evaluating the plan.

Information Processing Theory
http://tip.psychology.org/miller.html
This web page discusses George A. Miller's two theoretical ideas, chunking and TOTE (test, orient, test, exist), and relates these to information processing and their application.

Memory (5 Cognitive Psychology Interactive Games From NASA)
http://olias.arc.nasa.gov/cognition/tutorials/index.html
This website uses five interactive games to teach concepts about memory. The games include Recognition, The Mnemonicizer, Human Memory: Recall, Interference, and Short Term Memory.

Memory Techniques and Mnemonics
http://www.demon.co.uk/mindtool/memory.html
This web page offers access to methods for improving memory, including articles introducing memory techniques plus explanations and applications of same.

The Theories of Learning
http://tip.psychology.org/theories.html
This web page provides a list of major theories of learning with links to an article on each with overview, application, and references.

The Learning Concepts
http://tip.psychology.org/concepts.html
This site lists learning concepts with links to articles summarizing these concepts with links and references for further information.



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