Metacognition is "thinking about thinking" or as James Lange describes in his article "Metacognition and Student Learning" in Chronicles of Higher Education "... our ability to assess our own skills, knowledge, or learning." In today's episode I share a story about how one of my college students passed a very difficult grammar class and in the process became a metacognitive thinker. We explore how students can learn to think metacognitively and become more successful college students by learning the skill of posing questions to themselves about the material, and as a result become active learners and successful students.
