Cognition Education and Communication Technology or Pacific Asia

Cognition, Education, and Communication Technology

Author: Peter G rdenfors

Cognition, Education, and Communication Technology presents some of the recent theoretical developments in the cognitive and educational sciences and implications for the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in the organization of school and university education. Internationally renowned researchers present theoretical perspectives with proposals for and evaluations of educational practices. Each chapter discusses different aspects of the use of ICT in education, including:

*the role of perceptual processes in learning;
*external cognition as support for interactive learning;
*the role of meta-cognition;
*simulation learning environments as cognitive tools;
*the role of science controversy for knowledge integration;
*the use of ICT in the development of educators; and
*the role of narratives in education.

ICT has great potential for revolutionizing education. Large investments of resources are being made, often withouta strong understanding of how ICT will or should be implemented. The expectation is that students will show immediate improvements in terms of their motivation to learn and their learning achievements, but reality is different. Progress of ICT in education requires more than just computers in the classroom. It demands an understanding of the complex processes contributing to human learning and how they interact with new technologies. This text provides theoretical perspectives on the learning processes that can be used as a foundation for constructing pedagogically valuable tools based on ICT.

The combination of results--from cognitive science and pedagogy, with more practically oriented suggestions forhow ICT can be used in various forms of education--makes this book suitable for researchers and students in the cognitive and educational sciences, as well as for practitioners and planners of education.

Table of Contents:

1	Introduction to cognition, education, and communication technology	1
2	Designs for knowledge evolution : towards a prescriptive theory for integrating first- and second-hand knowledge	21
3	Getting the story straight : the role of narrative in teaching and learning with interactive media	55
4	Technology and the new culture of learning : tools for education professionals	77
5	Modeling the perceptual component of conceptual learning - a coordination perspective	109
6	Metacognition, distributed cognition, and visual design	147
7	External cognition, innovative technologies, and effective learning	181
8	Seeing through the screen : human reasoning and the development of representational technologies	203
9	WISE design for lifelong learning - pivotal cases	223
10	Determinants of discovery learning in a complex simulation learning environment	257

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Pacific Asia

Author: Peter Preston

This introduction will serve as a 'first stop' for those interested in Japan, its role in the Pacific Asian region and, in turn, that region's role in the evolving global system. In this volume, P. W. Preston critically analyses the political economy, social institutions and culture of Pacific Asia. The analysis focuses on Japan , it's relations with the inner periphery of Southeast Asia, and its developing linkages with the reforming socialist countries of China and Indo-China
The critical perspective, awareness of cultural and ethnic trends and a sophisticated grasp of social patterns makes this volume an essential introduction to the region.