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Peer reviewedRobinson, Michael – Instructional Science, 1979
Application of cybernetic laws and information processing principles suggests that traditional and modern teaching methods are radically incompatible, in the sense that techniques developed in the one cannot be transferred to the other without dislocation of the system as a whole. (Author/WBC)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Conventional Instruction, Cybernetics
Elliott, John D. – 1988
This essay considers whether the brain can accelerate the speed with which it absorbs or dispenses information in ways similar to those of a computer, and, if so, whether any of these speed-up approaches increase the speed of the processing of the information in the brain. It is suggested that there are tasks for which speed is important in both…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Computers, Cybernetics
