Collective intelligence for educators

Collective intelligence for educators

1. Evolution of knowledge (Revolutions)

   • 2nd revolution: Creation of the alphabet. Further development of literature, critical thinking and universality.
   • 1st revolution: invention of writing. Ideas were taken to a real phase through it.
   • 3rd revolution: Origins of modern world with industrialization. Natural sciences based on observation and experimentation. Human and social sciences emerged from disintegration of theology and philosophy.
   • 4th revolution: Multiple data connection. Human and social sciences as the new scientific revolution. Human communities will produce and reflect on data.

2. Evolution of education

   • Education limited to some elites (training on reading and speeches)
   • Mandatory for everyone (programs and institutions are uniform)
   • Knowledge is delocalized, interactions in social media, resources are free.

3. Data curation skills

   • New literacy implies the management of data curation skills to communicate, create, categorize and promote knowledge.
     • Personal Intelligence
       • Attention management: Attention is focused on selecting the appropriate resources to learn.
       • Interpretation: Analyze data to test hypothesis we formulate based on our knowledge.
       • Memory management: Use of tangible tools abut also a categorization system to retrieve information.
     • Critical Intelligence
       • External critique: collect information from different sources and cross-examine it to identify common and different perspectives.
       • Internal critique: Recognize the categorization system and its narrative.
       • Pragmatic critique: comparison between the source's narrative and its actual effect. A source is reliable if its information is tansparent.
     • Collective Intelligence
       • Stigmergic communication: it is possible through local and global memory modifications.
       • Liberty: Combination of power and responsibility. Power is the capacity of control many processes as create, assess, and organize. Meanwhile, responsibility is being aware of how we create together the common environment.
       • Collaborative learning: People take tacit knowledge acquired from experiences and reflections to resources or explicit knowledge that is accessible to other people.

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