How Can We Raise The Quality of Teacher Crowdsourcing Resources?
This article was written originally for MultiBriefs Education . As a society, we have developed quite the appetite for information that is received by way of “crowdsourcing,” which can be loosely defined by sites like Google as the practice of obtaining information or input into a task or project by enlisting the services of a large number of people, either paid or unpaid, typically via the internet. The rise of this strategy should not come as a surprise as it allows individuals to receive near instant feedback from a variety of sources on just about any topic. For some things, the benefits far outweigh the drawbacks. For example, last week I used a local community Facebook group to help me find a plumber to fix a leaky pipe in my home. I used another group to help me figure out if my dog’s recent loss of appetite was something I should be worried about or not. This strategy is not new to me in my professional life either. I regularly crowdsource answers to questions I face as a N