3. The essential ingredients of "new wave" learning environments
3.1 The situated, shared and distributed cognition approaches
reacts against the "rational view" of cognitive sciences
- less planning, more opportunism (Suchman, Steels)
reacts against the "mentalist vision" of cognitive sciences
- not everything is in the brain (Lave, Pea)
- mental representations do no exist (Clancey)
insists that the environment is important
- addresses the transfer problem
- knowledge is contextual
gives importance the social and cultural dimension
- learning = integration into a "community of practise" (Lave)
- several agents form a single "distributed cognitive system" (Hutchins)
Supporting environments are being built on the Internet.
Brazil 97 - 3 MAY 1997
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