It is important to know that in order to improve the teaching – learning process.
Perhaps the biggest challenge for young people at present is learning to think and learn independently. This is not as simple as it may seem. This is serious problem nowadays, where we are bombarded by electronic media (especially via advertising) that tell us how to think and what to think about.
The attached report addresses this problem in terms of mathematics education.
Independent learning requires learners to be confident enough to make smart choices, for example, about the resources they use, how to approach tasks and in terms of monitoring and evaluating their own progress. Effective collaborative learning challenges individuals to think independently as well as to share their thinking, to engage actively in discussion and to debate and learn from each other (p. 6).
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