There are no silver bullets in education but if there ever was a secret weapon educators can deploy to improve student learning, it’s metacognition. Metacognition is a meta-level awareness of ...

Effective learning skills are critical for navigating an increasingly complex world. Rapid advances in technology make it possible to access large amounts of information quickly. Although this ...

Metacognition is a high order thinking skill that is emerging from the shadows of academia to take its rightful place in classrooms around the world. As online classrooms extend into homes, this is an ...

(This is the final post in a four-part series on the topic of metacognition in the classroom. You can see Part One here; Part Two here and Part Three here.) The new “question-of-the-week” is: What is ...

'Metarecognition' is the ability to objectively monitor, control, and improve one's learning ability. Researchers demonstrated that the human brain exhibits metacognitive abilities that regulate ...

Meta-cognition is simply thinking about your own thinking. It's the ability to step back and pay attention to how you learn, solve problems, and make decisions. People who use metacognition are more ...

Cognitive offloading, the practice of shifting cognitive tasks to external aids, significantly enhances problem-solving and learning efficiency. This paper offers a comprehensive review of cognitive ...

David Timony, Ph.D., doesn’t particularly like writing things down, but there’s something about putting pen to paper that helps him learn better. “As I’m writing, I’m reviewing what’s going onto the ...

Metacognition is a high order thinking skill that is emerging from the shadows of academia to take its rightful place in classrooms around the world. As online classrooms extend into homes, this is an ...

(This is the second post in a four-part series on the topic of metacognition in the classroom. You can see Part One here.) Thinking about thinking. That’s the simplest definition of Metacognition. But ...