Know your learning processes

Metacognition refers to knowledge of the cognitive processes themselves, the results of these processes and any aspect that relates to them; that is, learning the relevant properties that relate to the information and data.

Knowledge about one's own cognition implies being able to become aware of how our way of learning and understand the factors that explain the results of an activity, whether positive or negative.

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Metacognition is the awareness of our own intellectual processes, is to have knowledge of how we perceive, acquire, receive data that comes from outside. This method, skill, helps us to deepen our potentialities and weaknesses. Thanks to metacognition, we can differentiate from other animals, since we possess the ability of introspection and reflection that helps us to evaluate ourselves, perfecting our knowledge, abilities, potentialities. It is very important the ability to reflect on our own knowledge and potential, so we can perfect ourselves and more efficiently achieve our life projects. Also, thanks to this skill, it will help us to better understand a text, a paragraph, a task, a lesson.

Metacognition and the learning process have some common factors, it facilitates learning, through self-assessment and the factors that help us learning; the desire to do something, to excel, this thanks to the in-depth knowledge of oneself and through motivation; As we see, it is clear that if there is a very close relationship between these two models, these two skills.