Meta-learning for students: The ultimate skill to becoming independent lifelong learners in the era of technology and AI. An application in Mathematics.

In this article, the way students learn and the meta-learning skills and techniques needed for them to become independent lifelong learners in 2025 are being studied. Some of these meta-learning techniques are priming, mind maps and effective note-taking. It is important to understand that, from the one side, the way our brains like or, in other words, tend to learn has been thoroughly studied and understood during the past years and different meta-learning mental models have gradually emerged. On the other side, the new framework of today’s life due to the rise of technology and artificial intelligence (AI), with several chatbots such as ChatGPT, has inevitably inserted more perplexity in the aforementioned issue. In this new setting, according to the scientific community in the specific education field, meta-learning techniques are the ultimate key to enabling students to take the initiative of their learning, to pursue learning experiences that transform their lives and finally to acquire more conscious, self-directed as well as self-motivated learning. Lastly, an application of the aforementioned meta-learning techniques in Mathematics is been presented, regarding the resolution of first-degree linear equations, in order it is implemented in real learning circumstances.