Prior to engaging in this discussion, please read Chapter 8: Owning Our Learning Experiences in your e-book and review the Instructor Guidance. Metacognition is the ability to be aware of and regulate ones thought processes. It is suggested to be a process that improves our ability to effectively process information. Consider the benefits of being more aware of your own learning needs and how it might affect both your personal and professional goals. Discuss the following:

• How could an increased awareness of information processing, your learning style, and your attention and self-regulation strategies potentially affect your performance in your academic journey?
• Your career development/professional life?
• Based on your career goals, how can a better understanding of how we learn be applied?
  (e.g. in your organization? your community? your volunteer efforts?)
• Did you learn anything important about yourself thr

Reflect on the following questions based on your teenage years. Respond to the questions at your comfort level. Your responses will not be submitted with your assignment.

• What type of music did you listen to? Did it have an influence on your personality?
• What type of relationship did you have with your parents or guardians?
• What were your interests and hobbies in life?
• Did you feel that adults considered your thoughts and feelings? Did they take you seriously?
• How well did you fit in with your peers?
• Where or from whom did you learn about sex?
• What were your comfortable feelings about your body?
• What embarrassed you?
• How did you do in school?
• What did you want to be when you grew up?
• Did you have troubled areas that reoccurred?

Write a 350- to 700-word self-analysis ba

Assignment 1: Social Change Reflect

Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors.

The DREAM Act is a bipartisan legislation that addresses the plight of young people who grew up in the United States and have graduated from our high schools, but whose future is circumscribed by our current immigration laws.

Watch the video below and write a reaction post, addressing the following:

1. What are your reactions to this video? 
2. Is the DREAM movement an example of spontaneous social change or of planned social change? Why? 
3. Is this movement an example of incremental/gradual change or an example of changing the structure of the system. Explain your answer. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz2yr-vPOeo

The DREAM Act is a bipartisan legislation that addresses the plight of young people who grew up in the United States and have graduated from our high schools, but whose future is circumscribed by our current immigration laws.

Watch the video below and write a reaction post, addressing the following:

1. What are your reactions to this video? 
2. Is the DREAM movement an example of spontaneous social change or of planned social change? Why? 
3. Is this movement an example of incremental/gradual change or an example of changing the structure of the system. Explain your answer. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=iz2yr-vPOeo

Explain the Zone of Proximal Development and Provide Examples of how the steps of scaffolding supports the learning process and how it relates to the Zone of Proximal Development.   

An article on ZPD https://www.edutopia.org/blog/scaffolding-lessons-six-strategies-rebecca-alber

Another example of using ZPD using different steps is attached