Sunday, August 9, 2009

Metacognition and Jim Kelly

Who is the voice in your head?
I mean the one heard while reading a book or a blogpost to yourself.
Is it mine? If you know my voice, do you hear it

or your concept of it
or your own voice?
Are you even 'hearing'?

It is a question which comes up in Lit class. Usually framed as,
'What does the reader bring to the meaning of a story?'
Author Jim Kelly adds to the issue by reading his own stories aloud for us.

I like the one about the proof of God.
Click the link and scroll down to 5JUNE2006.

Saturday, August 8, 2009

Metacognition and Justine Larbalestier

I found a metacognitive blogger who has been
thinking about thinking
about the same ideas I ponder.
The same genre, even the same era.
I imagine her sitting in the last outpost, beyond the frontier town furthest out in the direction I want to travel, at the bar. She's returned from another trip not so much tired as revisiting. Just to report back and remind herself why she does what she does. Take a look at her blog http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/
and she's down there in the blogs I follow.