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Education, Information Technologies, and the Augmentation of Human Intellect

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Campbell, Gardner – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2006

The author believes that information technologies are powerfully heuristic in addressing one of education's deepest ambitions. Following Engelbart's paradigm, he sees these technologies as augmenting human intellect, not simply because they permit high-speed calculations but also because they externalize our own cognitive processes in a way that…

Descriptors: Information Technology, Cognitive Processes, Heuristics, Critical Thinking