Welcome To Meta Learning!

Meta-Learning seeks to provide quality differentiated education by creating meta-cognitive awareness amongst our students. In Pakistan, education is mostly textbook based. In addition to this, textbooks that are designed for use in schools fail to engage the students. These books lack hypothetical questions which require students to employ their meta-cognitive abilities. For Example, if a student of Class X is asked to apply Newton’s first law of motion on a situation, he will be unable to do so. It is not because they have not learned the law, but it is because they have failed to use meta-cognitive functions and have focused on rote’-memorization (Dawn, 2012). They can only recall its definition but cannot apply it in real-life situations. At the regional roundtable conference held in 2016, conducted by LUMS and AKU-IED, it was acknowledged that the existing assessment practices (including classroom assessment and national examinations) encourage mainly rote learning instead of problem-solving skills. Hence, they fail to prepare students for life.