Collective intelligence and web tools in the educational process

ABSTRACT

The knowledge society has managed to address one of the biggest changes, in the last two years, which has had a total and partial confinement, of this issue that afflicts humanity, the health emergency caused by the COVID-19. The world could not be paralyzed in all scenarios, for this reason, it was necessary to act and get to incorporate information and communication technologies (ICT) into daily activities. The educational context was one which incorporates and uses of ICT is most reflected, which had to make a stop along the way, to think of how it would be implemented communication strategies to interact with students and be able to continue with education at home. In this way, ICTs began to be more relevant through Web tools and, to be incorporated, used, and adapted to keep the educational process active. In this way, individual work was also privileged, and even more collaborative one allowing Collective Intelligences to be empowered in education, by developing favorable spaces to home learning. This research project addressed the research question "How to promote the development of Collective Intelligence supported by web tools?"where the intervention and relevance of the web tools were understood in depth, as well as their incorporation, use, adaptation, and contribution to the development of the educational processes;whereas teachers, students and now family, they have played an active role facing this health emergency caused by COVID-19. The interactions and reflections made around these tools, allow to strengthen the competences, the collaborative and cooperative learning, which increases the group work team. One of the purposes was to interact with Web tools to strengthen the development of Collective Intelligences, the educational process conceived in a decentralized context allows to generate a technological transformation in education. This has allowed teachers, students, and parents to act in collective environments, in this sense, the expanded open classroom education that works collectively has taken a considerable enough of strength, where everyone acts, reflects and participates in active roles. The research was worked with the methodological approach of qualitative type, which allowed to know about the reality that surrounds the educational process, by observing to describe and explain the attitudes and academic developments of students in situations identified in a theoretical-practical context. One of the results was the interaction and the way who works emotional intelligence was addressed, when students and teachers are working as a team, in developing Collective Intelligences. The project has been advanced, thanks to the observation as an instrument that has made it possible to demonstrate the applicability of web tools to strengthen the development of Collective Intelligences in the educational process. © 2021 ACM.