27 Cognitive Actions That Promote Self-Directed Learning
- Explain the significance
- Challenge something
- Draw a conclusion
- Form an important question
- Revise a question based on observation & data
- Critique something
- Observe something
- Revise something
- Transfer a lesson or philosophical stance from one situation to another
- Improve a design
- Identify a cause and effect
- Compare and contrast two or more things
- Test the validity of a model
- Separate causes from symptoms
- Identify the primary and secondary causes of a problem
- Adapt something for something new
- Make a prediction and observe what occurs
- Narrate a sequence
- Study and visually demonstrate nuance
- Identify and explain a pattern
- Study the relationship between text and subtext
- Elegantly emphasize nuance
- Critically evaluate a socially-accepted idea
- Extract a lesson from nature
- Take & defend a position
- Record notes during and after observation of something
- Form a theory & revise it based on observation and/or data
