Wednesday September 10, 2008 CRD 704 - Reading 4
Class assignment:=============================================================
\Choose 4 chapters to read from Educating the Net Generation
- The Horizon Report (2008)
QUESTION: why do we consider "the kind of knowledge and understanding that emerges from large groups of people" (Horizon Report, 2008) collective "intelligence"? Isn't "intelligence" a relative judgment ?
I'll bet the majority of citizens of 1666 Salem, Massachusetts thought they were pretty intelligent to burn witches!
It's a fine line between intelligence and stupidity -- and there is no true judge of it -- yet the difference is often aided by historical perspective.
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I agree that "intelligence" is an unusual term to use to describe a collection of thoughts. But it might have to do with the dictionary meaning of "intelligence" (which most of us don't really think of when we hear the word) where it means the "ability to acquire knowledge" or a "collection of information" like military intelligence. But because we don't think of those definitions I think you're right that it seems wrong that we assume knowledge emerging from a large group of people is always the best information.
Posted by Kelly on September 10, 2008 at 02:30 PM EDT #
I found it interesting that you and Ruffin both took issue with the defining of "collective intelligence" this week: http://crd704ige.blogspot.com/2008/09/collective-intelligence-meet-itunes-80.html
Makes me think about my own assumptions about what these terms mean.
Posted by Susan on September 10, 2008 at 04:04 PM EDT #