week 9

This week’s readings emphasize the importance of the media literacy skill ‘Collective Intelligence’, defined as the ability to pool knowledge and compare notes with others toward a common goal. This skill allows for a social production of knowledge, and emphasizes that everybody knows something that they can share and build from. Collective Intelligence in the classroom can help disrupt hierarchies of banking education where only the teacher is seen as having valuable knowledge, and encouraging students to also be leaders and share the things they know and care about. Using collective intelligence skills can also encourage students to work collaboratively and feel like they have more ownership of the work that they do in class. Lastly, it encourages students to work across disciplines and types of knowledge, allowing them to understand multiple intelligences and to be able to synthesize information towards a goal.