• Nobody plagiarizes in their diary.”
• Research has shown that engaging in metacognition, reflecting on one’s own thinking process, is one of the most effective ways in enhancing learning
• mportant skills and dispositions such as higher-order thinking, leadership, creativity, resilience, and open-mindedness cannot be taught explicitly
• When we try to teach them, we often reduce them to a recipe and procedure that do not reflect the complexity of the real-world (Dede, 2022). A Chinese idiom says “Words transmit, actions teach (言传身教),” acknowledging the importance of both explicit teaching through words and implicit teaching through modeling and action.
• It is important to note that the process of doing activities is, in itself, not sufficient – it is critical to have a space to unpack the thinking and experiences during the activities to consolidate understanding
• or any learning to take place, learners have to be at the edge of their competency
• Motivation is not something we either have or do not have; it is a complex, multifaceted, and dynamic process.
• However, AI cannot easily replicate human judgment, which is a deliberative thought process that is flexible and contextual based on experiential knowledge, ethics, values, relationships, and culture

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