The action of teaching reinforces one's learning but requires some external
quality control when done by non- professionals (e.g., a professor supervising
teaching assistants). This quality control is costly and has limited the
adoption of peer teaching in schools. Our solution to this problem is to ask
students to create pedagogical material that will then be evaluated by the
students themselves, where they evaluate a mix of new and already rated
materials. One advantage of this technique is that it allows students to
develop critical thinking skills, since they must judge if the presented
material adequately covers a specific topic. We describe the "Teaching is
Learning" project, that implements these ideas. We first discuss two pilot
studies: 1) since 2009, engineering students from the University of Chile have
been creating and validating pedagogical 3D animations; and 2) during 2015,
seventh graders from the Blest Gana secondary school created and evaluated
pedagogical videos using their cell phones, editing the videos during their
Technology class. We then give an overview of existing work on measuring
student learning, and discuss how we can evaluate the effectiveness of our
technique. We conclude by describing our plans for implementing the "Teaching
is Learning" project at a larger scale during 2016, both in Chile and in Brazil