집단지성을 활용한 예비교사들의 과학지식 형성과정 탐색

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Abstract:The purpose of this study was to investigate the process of constructing pre-service teachers’ scientificknowledge information through collective intelligence. We selected the ‘Appropriate Technology’ (A.T.) as thesubject for formation of scientific knowledge. Twenty nine pre-service teachers of the course ‘Scientific Thinkingand Writing in Science Education’ were allowed to freely post information whenever they wanted. They presentedtheir full opinions, interacted with each other, and assessed the other’ information on the website for a month. Theway of posting was as follows. After one pre-service teacher had written the information about A.T. on the website,the other assessed the text and added or modified the writing. This process continued. We analyzed every writingthey posted and questionnaire which contained the reason why they modified the text. The result was as follows. Pre-service teachers formed collective intelligence through four stages. First, pre-service teachers started to find theinformation related to the subject and they just added the information behind the other’s writing. In the second stage,information was added, too. But the difference was that the information they selected carried values for havingcertain views. Third, they organized their writings with logical and critical thinking. Finally, they revised their overallwriting. The results showed that students could develop their critical thinking and they could learn the way ofcommunication from the process of collective intelligence. We found the forming process of knowledge by collectiveintelligence, and explored the various involving patterns and thinking activities in the process. Based on this research,we expect the improvement of students’ logical and critical thinking through the various classes using collectiveintelligence.Key words: collective intelligence, pre-service science teacher, science knowledge formation Ewha Womans University