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Collective Intelligence

Collective intelligence (CI) is shared or group intelligence that emerges from the collaboration, collective efforts, and competition of many individuals and appears in consensus decision making. The term appears in sociobiology, political science and in context of mass peer review and crowdsourcing applications.

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Collective intelligence enables learners to learn from each other or a knowledgeable other. (Vygotsky, 1978, p. 86) According to his theory we can advance from point A which is our individual learning to a broader point B through scaffolding and being assisted and guided by another or others who are more experienced and knowledgeable and in this way we can develop our concepts and skills. Social spaces and collaborative platforms be it facebook, twitter, google docs, blogs or wikis provide opportunities where learners upload and share their work with a larger community. Those who need assistance and clarity can go through the work of others and learn from it. They can compare their work with the uploaded assignments and see what they need to do to improve their work. Further understanding of collective intelligence can be gathered form the following link: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1721691

The main feature of collective intelligence is shared sources of information, the collective wisdom of experts, researchers and thinkers which are available to all in the form of published work and we can build our work using these sources of knowledge as long as we give credits. Formative assessment through feedback helps us to learn collaboratively and improve our work by reflecting on the feedback. Another important aspect of sharing through online spaces is that we become conscious of the quality of the work we are going to share with the wider audience therefore we put in our best effort to produce good quality work. When working collaboratively we try to make valuable contributions because we are concerned about opinion of our peers and audience. For example if students are given a project to research ecosystems, they can gather information from all possible sources. By working collaboratively they can select a specific aspect they want to research, this makes them produce good quality work so that their contribution is appreciated. By pitching in they learn from each other and try to come up with a presentable finished product which in uploaded to be viewed by a wider audience. They further improve their assignment by making changes according to the comments and feedback they receive. Through collaboration we not only learn from others but also self-evaluate and critically reflect on our work. Collective intelligence promotes 21st century learning skills such as critical thinking, reflection, creativity and communication skills.

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