Join us for R&D Unplugged #6 with Ignacio Atal
Is collective intelligence among teachers possible?
Teachers are on the front line in ensuring quality education for all. Improving teaching quality by giving teachers top-down recommendations on proven practices often doesn't work, because these practices may not correspond to the challenges or practices teachers face in real life. In fact, teachers learn to teach primarily on the basis of their own experiences and exchanges with their peers. This experiential knowledge is produced and shared daily by millions of teachers. Yet this experiential knowledge is often intuitive, non-generalizable and localized.In 2019, we have created the Professors (profschercheurs.org), a participatory research program designed to encourage teachers to produce reliable, shareable and cumulative knowledge about their own educational practices. It aims to orchestrate teachers' collective intelligence to help them find collective solutions to their shared challenges.In this presentation, we will review the main lessons learned from our 5 years of experience, in particular the opportunities offered by collective intelligence and participatory research to build knowledge in education, but also the obstacles and difficulties encountered in emulating such a dynamic in France.
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More about the speaker
Ignacio Atal is an engineer from the École Polytechnique and holds a PhD in Public Health and Epidemiology from the Université Paris Descartes. He first worked in the field of medicine, mapping clinical research to identify gaps in the global research agenda. He then turned to the educational sciences at the CRI (now the Learning Planet Institute) to develop participatory approaches to bridge the gap between research and practice in the field of education.
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