from personal belief to social knowledge (next semester)
Latour, Giddens, Bourdieu, Habermas
from epistemology to communications and social theory
Perspectives
Boland, Scandinavian, Heidegger, Gadamer
Cognitive artifacts
Heidegger, Benjamin, Cole, Bruner, Engestrom, Norman
AERA sculptures
An evolutionary advance
Donald, Norman, Engestrom: external memory
frozen cognition; cognitive capital
collaboration: computationally enhanced
exponential growth
Community memory
… suggests a
new process that could support both individual and collaborative learning. The
shared language can be further formalized for computer capture. This provides a
higher level of persistence for the discussion that took place. Cultural
artifacts (like this diagram) can also be saved in the computer-based group
memory. Active software can deliver representations of previous public knowledge
for incorporation in individual interpretation or in collaborative
understanding. The computer memory acts much like a complex, active cultural
artifact or communication medium.
The idea of a KBE as a cognitive artifact
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