Image retreived from Pixabay under CC0 licence From very early days of our life we are learning…we are learning independently by trials and errors. I cannot count how many times I’ve heard from my 2-years old son „no, no, no, don’t help me, I want to do it by myself”. By learning from others, by getting ready-made solutions, I guess we lost some part of our innate creativity. But there is no other way. By living in society, small children start to absorb information at an exponential rate. So we, as the teachers, must learn how to teach wisely to protect/strengthen our students critical thinking and how to show our students that balanced collaboration can be so powerful. A key issue to start with is the importance of getting to know each other, when working in the group. I noticed that that in standard classroom, Students are really sensitive on whether I remember all of their names. Sometimes it’s hard with large groups, but it’s worth to find a way t...