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Interactive workbook
Designing Metacognition in Legal Education
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Interactive workbook for Educators

Thinking about thinking
(in legal education).

An interactive site to support academics in the design of metacognitive tasks.
This workbook is intended to supplement the staff development session on metacognition in legal education.

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Task-level

Academic task design

Design individual tasks and activities that build planning, monitoring, and evaluation into students' learning.

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Course-level

Competence-focused course design

Build metacognition and metacompetence into the architecture of a whole module or programme.

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GenAI conditions

AI-aware metacognitive design

Adapt your teaching for AI-mediated conditions: prompts, the AI continuum, verification, and case discussion.

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Table of contents

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  1. §01
    Orientation
    How to use this workbook
  2. §02
    Why this matters
    Core rationale
  3. §03
    Three stages
    A simple design model
  4. §04
    Six commitments
    Design principles
  5. §05
    Planning
    Design exercise: before learning
  6. §06
    Monitoring
    Design exercise: during learning
  7. §07
    Evaluation & regulation
    Design exercise: after learning
  8. §08
    Competence-focused courses
    Designing for metacompetence
  9. §09
    Interactive exercises
    Interactive professional formation exercises
  10. §10
    Implicit dispositions
    Habits of mind worksheet
  11. §11
    AI-aware design
    GenAI as a new condition for metacognitive teaching
  12. §12
    Adapt freely
    AI-aware prompt bank
  13. §13
    Where does each use sit?
    AI use continuum
  14. §14
    Calibration
    Verification and overconfidence
  15. §15
    Discussion
    Understanding different uses
  16. §16
    What might AI use reveal?
    Reframing the AI question
  17. §17
    Take it to your module
    Action-planning template
  18. §18
    Synthesis
    Final reflection
  19. §19
    For Participants
    A closing note