Metacognitively Speaking
In engineering education there is always a conversation about getting students to partake in metacognition i.e. thinking about thinking. There's studies out in the universe that shows that having students self reflect and evaluate their own learning lends to better retention of the information given to them. But how does one go about doing so? Growing up I'm sure most people had a journal at one point - either personally or for academic reasonings. My question is: why'd we stop keeping them? As the world migrated to the digital age, some people that I knew who were avid journalers migrated...Read More