metacognition

Why is metacognition essential for good learning?

Metacognition is extremely important in order to retrieve and remember what learned.  Through the information process, thinking about thinking, helps understand the problem.  Long and short term memory plays an important role gathering, remembering and retrieving information.  In the middle of this is, “control process, is the metacognition process.   We need to realize what is happening while our brains are controlling thought while learning. 

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