Metaknowlege, Metalearning & Metacognition

Historically, the concepts of metalearning and metacognition are rooted in the work of Flavell from the 1970's. Flavell believed that memory development is the development of intelligent structuring and storage of input, intelligent search and retrieval, and intelligent monitoring and knowledge of one's own storage and retrieval operations. Flavell called this self-knowledge "a kind of metamemory" (Hacker, 1) Metacognitive thoughts do not come from a person's immediate external reality but rather from the person's internal representations of that reality. Metacognition is sometimes simply called thinking about thinking. Flavell himself called it "knowledge and cognition abou

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environments. Customers can be demanding and impatient, and those hospitality professionals and organizations which survive will be those who can quickly solve problems on the spot. A good example of this orientation towards employee empowerment is the Ritz-Carlton company which reportedly gives each employee a latitude of $2000 to solve a problem for a customer. Sometimes knowing about knowledge is required in fast-paced day-to-day operations of the hospitality industry. If a harried customer specifically wants DSL for the room in order to continue working throughout the evening, that person will not be satisfied with a room without DSL. They deserve to be served by an individual who understands that, who will make a quick room change or provide a refund for the inconvenience of not having the appropriate broadband connection that was expected. Mulcahy and James suggest that, as well as knowledge, the skilled worker has to have a "situation-oriented ability to act" (1998, 1). Such a well-trained individual needs an ability to grasp the context and act accordingly, with self-confidence and easy communication with others. Depending on the parameters of the training institution, sometimes web-based training provides an
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