Metacognitive Competency – Page 6

Why human behavior is at the center of education

Dustin Eirdosh is a researcher in the Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Psychology, in Leipzig, Germany and is the co-founder of the international educational development non-profit Global ESD. In his enlightening talk, he brings us his vision for the future of education. He wants to show how human behaviour can be seen through the lens of biology, history, math, economics, civics, geography, art, literature, and more, and therefore acts as a central concept to connect these traditionally disconnected school subjects.
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http://www.GlobalESD.org Mr. Eirdosh is an education researcher at the Max Planck institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and founder of the international non-profit organization, Global ESD, working on educational development efforts at the intersection of human evolution, behavior, and sustainability science. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Dustin Eirdosh

How can we use insights about human evolution, human behavior, and the causal interactions in social-ecological systems to address local, regional and global sustainability issues? How can we use these understandings to solve real world problems?

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Our Mind

Dustin Eirdosh

What can we learn from our own thoughts and intuitions about human evolution, behavior, and sustainability? Understanding the causes of our perceptions, intuitions, and beliefs helps us to engage them more flexibly, change perspective, and learn from each other to achieve shared goals.

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Use conversation starters to launch and sustain school improvement processes

Dustin Eirdosh

How do you start a conversation about improving your school? Our collection of conversation starters is a good place to start.

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Preschool Teaching and Learning Comprehension Index (PTLCI)

Dustin Eirdosh

a comprehensive Preschool Teaching and Learning Comprehension Index (PTLCI) based on tasks derived from previous studies investigating children’s understanding of knowledge and intention in teaching and learning.

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Scientific clarification

Dustin Eirdosh

The clarification of scientific concepts.

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Scaffold and ensure adaptive Theories of Self, Schooling, and Society

Dustin Eirdosh

Schools should help students develop a minimum metacognitive understanding of the concept of ethnotheories of everyday life, and the similarities and differences between everyday learning and scientific learning. This is especially critical in the domains of self, schooling, and society.

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Ethnography

Dustin Eirdosh

Ethnography is the documentation of culture. There are many ways to develop an ethnography, depending on the aims, context, and resources of the researchers.

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Develop School-Based Community Science Labs

Dustin Eirdosh

Students can and should be involved in the science-informed processes of community-based cultural evolution within their own school. Because this can be a complex task, schools should have some form of Community Science Lab (CSL), a group of students that are supported in more systematic approaches to school improvement through educational design thinking.

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Function of cognitive biases

Dustin Eirdosh

In this lesson students learn about the concept of cognitive biases as well as a number of important cognitive biases that may affect our well-being and social interactions, identify their causes in evolutionary history, their functions, and reflect on how to cope with cognitive biases.

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