Metacognition and Its Interactions with Cognition, Affect, Physicality and Off-Task Thought: Inside the Independent Learning Experience Carson Luke

What happens when teachers are removed from the equation, when we learn by ourselves or with peers?Increasingly rapid change is part of our world today and tomorrow. But are educators and educational institutions preparing today's students for this reality? The need to learn and to adapt is now lifelong and ubiquitous.

However, this does not mirror the learning environments that we inhabit outside of formal education, nor does it reflect all our learning time during formal education. Educators and institutions choose pedagogic models, design curricula and provide instruction. This text provides a data-driven picture of the independent learning experience - what occurs in the minds of learners as they negotiate learning tasks without (or with less) guidance and instruction.

Cognition, distraction, embodied experience, emotion, and metacognition are central to this