TY - JOUR
T1 - ‘Ed tech in reverse’
T2 - Information technologies and the cognitive revolution
AU - Friesen, Norm
AU - Feenberg, Andrew
PY - 2007/12
Y1 - 2007/12
N2 - As we rapidly approach the 50th year of the much‐celebrated ‘cognitive revolution’, it is worth reflecting on its widespread impact on individual disciplines and areas of multidisciplinary endeavour. Of specific concern in this paper is the example of the influence of cognitivism's equation of mind and computer in education. Within education, this paper focuses on a particular area of concern to which both mind and computer are simultaneously central: educational technology. It examines the profound and lasting effect of cognitive science on our understandings of the educational potential of information and communication technologies, and further argues that recent and multiple ‘signs of discontent’, ‘crises’ and even ‘failures’ in cognitive science and psychology should result in changes in these understandings. It concludes by suggesting new directions that educational technology research might take in the light of this crisis of cognitivsm.
AB - As we rapidly approach the 50th year of the much‐celebrated ‘cognitive revolution’, it is worth reflecting on its widespread impact on individual disciplines and areas of multidisciplinary endeavour. Of specific concern in this paper is the example of the influence of cognitivism's equation of mind and computer in education. Within education, this paper focuses on a particular area of concern to which both mind and computer are simultaneously central: educational technology. It examines the profound and lasting effect of cognitive science on our understandings of the educational potential of information and communication technologies, and further argues that recent and multiple ‘signs of discontent’, ‘crises’ and even ‘failures’ in cognitive science and psychology should result in changes in these understandings. It concludes by suggesting new directions that educational technology research might take in the light of this crisis of cognitivsm.
KW - artificial intelligence
KW - cognitive psychology
KW - educational technology
KW - mindtools
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/80053534251
U2 - 10.1111/j.1469-5812.2007.00314.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1469-5812.2007.00314.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:80053534251
SN - 0013-1857
VL - 39
SP - 720
EP - 736
JO - Educational Philosophy and Theory
JF - Educational Philosophy and Theory
IS - 7
ER -