Metacognition and Debugging
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debugging is thinking about thinking - bugs in software are similar to "bugs" in us - it's possible to debug our thinking the same way as you can debug software
- Thinking About Thinking Requires Something to Think About - in the process of debugging, we think about our thinking about the programming problem - the generalisation here is that this "method" can be applied to any thinking
- references: Cynthia Solomon, Logo and teaching children
- related to Constructionism
- writing is one! - there's thinking by writing, and writing also enables metacognition and debugging of ones thinking by allowing one to take a "step back" and look at the process
- and one step further metacognition and debugging
- this might be loosely related to meta-cognition and debugging where we can also simulate our own thinking process to debug it
- helps with seeing multiple takes on the same ideas, which helps with thinking for yourself (metacognition)
- one realisation of this is Metacognition when Debugging - thinking about the possible problem in the algorithm allow us to think about our thinking process
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