Metacognition

Metacognition is when you think about your thoughts. For example, you're looking at the gray sky and you know it's about to rain. You know it's about to rain because you already have prior knowledge on the fact that gray skies produce rain. Metacognition is helpful to me because I can actually know what I'm thinking and I can actually know why I'm thinking what I'm thinking. I learned that when you think about something, you're not only thinking about that one particular thing. You're actually thinking about more than one thing. In S.S class, we did an activity that allowed us to say our thoughts a loud and while I was doing that, I was talking about more than one thing. If I want to stop thinking about more than one thing, I have to concentrate on my thoughts. This is what I learned about Metacognition.