Metacognition in education.

Everything has gone flashy in this age of social media. Our fidget of scrolling up and down the digital screen does not let any idea to implant and germinate in our mind fruitfully. Moments of solitude have gone extinct. As the poet W.H. Davies says in his poem Leisure: 'What is this life if full of care/ We have no time to stand and stare?'

Consequently it is high time man spared moments to watch the progression of his thoughts. To think critically about our own thinking is called metacognition. It is a way to monitor and judge our own thinking process. It is a mechanism to assess objectively the correctness of our angle of vision regarding any visceral or cerebral aspect of our existence.

Researchers have studied metacognition typically in relation with education system. Both learners and educators go through the same grind without ever measuring out...