Metacognition: The Gift That Keeps Giving

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By teaching students to “drive their own brain” through metacognition, we provide a concrete way to guide them think about how they can best learn.

Dr. Donna Wilson and Marcus Conyer talks uses the metaphor of “driving the brain” to describe metacognition.   In this short piece posted on Edutopia (10/27/2014), they list 5 ways of teaching students to be more metacognitive.