I have read through the sites in the class of my colleagues and found two sites that were of interest to me and I have added them to my feed reader as well. After looking at Nathaniel’s webpage the rjaquez blog seemed very interesting. I especially enjoyed the information about moving from the elearning to the (mobile) mlearning format. After looking at Joan’S Blog the iddblog Instructional Design was also of interest to me.

   

Evaluating and Identifying Online Resources

Educational Journals

Metacognition Learning (2012) 7:151–173 DOI 10.1007/s11409-012-9089-9

Executive functioning, metacognition, and self-perceived competence in elementary school children: an explorative

study on their interrelations and their role for school achievement

      This article talks about a study that was done on 209 1^st grade children that were pre-assessed “in terms of their executive functioning and academic self-concept”.  They were then tested again after a year to test their brain functions in mathematics and reading. The test looked at several factors such as emotion, self-regulation, and functions within the memory of the brain. The conclusion was that the students had more executive functioning properties when dealing with Mathematics and Metacognitive control when dealing with Language Arts. I thing this study validates the studies that argue the different functions of the brain that are used to carry out certain tasks. It also validates the presence of more self-control in children as they grow older.

Learning, Memory & Cognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology

 Nov2013, Vol. 39 Issue 6, p1726-1741. 16p. DOI: 10.1037/a0033671.

Examining the Causes of Memory Strength Variability: Recollection, Attention Failure, or  Encoding Variability?

     This article talks about the findings in recognition memory. Although Encoding , Retrival, and Metacognition are the cognitive processes of memory there are others aspects that have been studied, such as the strength of each step in the memory process. This study pretty states that the more old items are viewed with new items the more likely that the new items will become stored in the memory with the old items. This reinforces the idea of recollection through association