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WATCH: Collective Learning

Collective learning is one of the developments that made our species distinct from others. It is the human ability to use language to share and pool information. This ability helped us to innovate and to grow our knowledge and skills over time. But it is also possible for a ‘glitch’ to get in the system and for mistaken ideas to be spread through collective learning. Website: https://whp.oerproject.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OERProject/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/OERProject. Created by World History Project.

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  • aqualine ultimate style avatar for user Lily🐀❤️
    is it just me or did the girl at look like she was going to cry?
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  • blobby green style avatar for user gloriaomundo
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  • leaf orange style avatar for user Abdulhusain Dalda
    Collective learning and culture are related concepts, but they are not the same thing.

    Collective learning refers to the ability of a group of individuals to share and accumulate knowledge over time. It is the process by which a group of people can build upon the discoveries, innovations, and insights of previous generations, leading to the development of new ideas and technologies.

    Culture, on the other hand, refers to the shared beliefs, values, customs, behaviors, and artifacts that characterize a group or society. Culture is passed down from one generation to the next through socialization, education, and other forms of communication, and it shapes the way people see the world and interact with one another.

    In other words, collective learning is a process of accumulating knowledge and information, while culture is the set of practices, beliefs, and values that result from that process of learning and sharing information. Collective learning can contribute to the development and transmission of culture, but it is not the same thing as culture itself.
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  • blobby green style avatar for user 17tatkkal22
    Q1- Collective learning is langauge and culture to share and pull from
    Q2- Cause its the reason were learning from before we existed its us pulling information from people before us
    Q3-Symbolic language gives us the ability to communicate very powerful ideas, gestures, language, culture that no other species has been able to do
    Q4-Because unecessary ideas get in and get passed on where we actually arent learning from them were getting taken back from where we were because of the idea instead of learning from it
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