Metacognition is one of the newest buzzwords floating around Education but what does it mean? How useful is it? What exactly does it do? How can I use this? I will try to answer these questions and provide some useful links which will allow for further study.
What does meta-cognition mean? Literally meta-cognition is thinking about learning. It is an approach based on the idea that by developing thinking skills students will be better able to apply these to all subjects.
How useful is it? Although there still needs to be more long term research there are lots of short to mid-term studies which show that younger learners in particular improved their grades across a range of classes.
What exactly does it do? The idea is that students develop cognitive skills such as lateral thinking, logical thinking, creativity and can be taught using almost any subject. Through the use of skills such as: independent thinking, team work, and cognitive skills.
I will follow this with some more posts about activities that can be used.
Further reading/Listening
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04k005d
https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/metacognitive-awareness
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-30210514
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