To control one's dreams and to live 'out there' what is impossible in real life -- a truly tempting idea. Some persons -- so-called lucid dreamers -- can do this. Researchers have discovered that the ...

The ASSETT Student Technology Consultants, in collaboration with tutors from the Academic Success & Achievement Program, have produced a four-part video series about metacognition. “Thinking about ...

(This is the second post in a four-part series on the topic of metacognition in the classroom. You can see Part One here.) Thinking about thinking. That’s the simplest definition of Metacognition. But ...

Do we need to teach children how to think? This is the focus of Nord Anglia Education’s newly published research, in collaboration with Boston College. By embedding metacognitive practices into ...

Humans were long thought to have a monopoly on metacognition, which is the ability to contemplate one's own mental states. Captive apes have recently shown this skill by demonstrating that they are ...

One of the defining features of human evolution is the emergent capacity of human beings to think about thinking. The ability to think about thinking is often described as a metacognitive skill.

Metacognition is the awareness and understanding of your own thought processes with the goal of improving learning and performance. Put simply, it’s a way to manage your thinking and is the last ...

(This is the third post in a four-part series on the topic of metacognition in the classroom. You can see Part One here and Part Two here.) In Part Two, Dan Rothstein, Mark Estrada, Diane Friedlaender ...

This news release is available in German. To control one's dreams and to live out there what is impossible in real life - a truly tempting idea. Some persons - so-called lucid dreamers -can do this.